R Observatory: Metrics for NetworkDistance version 0.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

NetworkDistance

0.3.6Package record

Distance Measures for Networks

1packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kisung YouCRAN page ↗

Network is a prevalent form of data structure in many fields. As an object of analysis, many distance or metric measures have been proposed to define the concept of similarity between two networks. We provide a number of distance measures for networks. See Jurman et al (2011) doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-692-8-227 for an overview on spectral class of inter-graph distance measures.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("NetworkDistance", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-networkdistance

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-NetworkDistance

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-NetworkDistance

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-12
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.3.6

READMEYes · 250 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.3.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 50%6 run in a plain check · 5 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 90%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 85% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (1)

Basic Usage of NetworkDistance Package

How these are measured

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,302 · ~11/day · ~337/mo

Releases R versions

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36630 days

97590 days

4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing NetworkDistance adds 27 packages (16 with compiled code, 17 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (13)

MatrixRcpp Rdpack RSpectra doParallel foreach graphonparallelstatsigraph network pracmautils

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (3)

graphicsknitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

etree

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Kisung You

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-12-08
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 3) in 0.3.3
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 2.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 297 KB

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("NetworkDistance")

Format

You, K. (2025). NetworkDistance: Distance Measures for Networks (Version 0.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.NetworkDistance

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for NetworkDistance version 0.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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