R Observatory: Metrics for PAFit version 1.2.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

PAFit

1.2.11Package record

Generative Mechanism Estimation in Temporal Complex Networks

0packages depend

7.6Kdownloads / year

66.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thong PhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Statistical methods for estimating preferential attachment and node fitness generative mechanisms in temporal complex networks are provided. Thong Pham et al. (2015) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0137796. Thong Pham et al. (2016) doi:10.1038/srep32558. Thong Pham et al. (2020) doi:10.18637/jss.v092.i03. Thong Pham et al. (2021) doi:10.1093/comnet/cnab024.

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("thongphamthe/PAFit")

Development version from thongphamthe/PAFit. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-pafit

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-PAFit

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-PAFit

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: 6.2 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.11

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · does not mention 1.2.11Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 42includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 51%21 run in a plain check · 20 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

PAFit: an R Package for the Non-Parametric Estimation of Preferential Attachment and Node Fitness in Temporal Complex Networks PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

7.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,281 · ~21/day · ~635/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

57530 days

1.5K90 days

7.6K1 year

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Also on531 r2u4 autocran162 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thongphamthe/pafit ↗Account: thongphamthe

16Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

193Commits

2Commit identities

rcranscale-freepreferential-attachmenttemporal-networkscomplex-networksminorize-maximizationfit-get-richer

193 commits · Last activity 2024-03-28 · The default branch showed an older version (1.2.10) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 510
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 6

Stars over time

2024-06-16 · 162026-07-07 · 16

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thongphamthe/pafit on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing PAFit adds 48 packages (26 with compiled code, 34 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, magicaxis 3.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.0

Imports (16)

RcppgrDevicesgraphicsstatsRColorBrewer VGAMMASSmagicaxis networkDynamic network plyr igraph mapproj knitrmethodsggplot2

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (1)

R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Thong Pham

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.2 (2015)

Paul Sheridan

Author

Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Author

Releases (32)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.11Latest
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-11-28
requires archived package 'magicaxis'
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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added 2 exports
generate_simulated_data_from_estimated_model, plot_contribution
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-05-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
PAFit_oneshot

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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test_linear_PA
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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removed 5 exports
plot.PA_result, plot.PAFit_result, print.PAFit_net, summary.PAFit_net, plot.PAFit_net
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2017-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
as.PAFit_net, print.PAFit_net, summary.PAFit_net, plot.PAFit_net, to_igraph, from_igraph, to_networkDynamic, from_networkDynamic, graph_from_file, graph_to_file
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2017-04-18 · diff ↗ ·
removed 10 exports
Generate_BA, Generate_BB, Generate_ER, Generate_fitonly, GenerateNet, GetStatistics, JointEstimate, OnlyA_Estimate, OnlyF_Estimate, PAFit

added 9 exports
generate_BA, generate_BB, generate_ER, generate_fit_only, generate_net, get_statistics, joint_estimate, only_A_estimate, only_F_estimate
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2017-03-10 · diff ↗ ·
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pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

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Generate_BA, Generate_BB, Generate_ER, Generate_fitonly, GenerateNet, GetStatistics, Jeong, JointEstimate, Newman, OnlyA_Estimate, OnlyF_Estimate, plot.PA_result, plot.PAFit_result, PAFit
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-03-27
Total releases: 32 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 1 file
Download size: 740 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("PAFit")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v092.i03, 10.1038/srep32558, 10.1371/journal.pone.0137796, 10.1093/comnet/cnab024.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for PAFit version 1.2.11 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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