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An implementation of methods for extracting a sparse unweighted network (i.e. a backbone) from an unweighted network (e.g., Hamann et al., 2016 <doi:10.1007/s13278-016-0332-2>), a weighted network (e.g., Serrano et al., 2009 <doi:10.1073/pnas.0808904106>), or a weighted projection (e.g., Neal et al., 2021 <doi:10.1038/s41598-021-03238-3>).
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Running 'tinytest.R' [6s]
Running the tests in 'tests/tinytest.R' failed.
Complete output:
> if ( requireNamespace("tinytest", quietly=TRUE) ){
+ tinytest::test_package("backbone")
+ }
____ backbone v3.0.4
| _ \ Cite: Neal, Z. P. (2026). backbone: An R package to extract network backbones.
|#|_) | PLOS One, 21, e0349258. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0349258
|# _ <
|#|_) | Help: type vignette("backbone"); email zpneal@msu.edu; github zpneal/backbone
|____/ Beta: type devtools::install_github("zpneal/backbone", ref = "devel")
test_backbone.R............... 0 tests
test_backbone.R............... 0 tests
test_backbone.R............... 1 tests OK
test_backbone.R............... 1 tests OK
test_backbone.R............... 1 tests OK
test_backbone.R............... 2 tests OK
test_backbone.R............... 3 tests OK
test_backbone.R............... 3 tests OK
test_backbone.R...............
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fails The backbone package for R (v3.0.4; Neal, 2025) was used to extract the unweighted backbone of an unweighted network containing 60 nodes. Edges were selected for retention in the backbone using Local Sparsification (Satuluri, Parthasarathy, and Ruan, 2011) with filtering parameter = 0.5, which removed 69% of the edges.
Neal, Z. P. 2025. backbone: An R Package to Extract Network Backbones. CRAN. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.backbone
Satuluri, V., Parthasarathy, S., & Ruan, Y. (2011, June). Local graph sparsification for scalable clustering. In Proceedings of the 2011 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of data (pp. 721-732). https://doi.org/10.1145/1989323.1989399
test_backbone.R............... 415 tests 1 fails
test_backbone.R............... 416 tests 1 fails 5.7s
----- FAILED[data]: test_backbone.R<393--393>
call| expect_true(any(bb %in% c(-1)))
diff| Expected TRUE, got FALSE
Error: 1 out of 416 tests failed
Execution halted
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ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 30, 2026
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r-devel-windows-x86_64
tests
Running 'tinytest.R' [6s]
Running the tests in 'tests/tinytest.R' failed.
Complete output:
> if ( requireNamespace("tinytest", quietly=TRUE) ){
+ tinytest::test_package("backbone")
+ }
____ backbone v3.0.4
| _ \ Cite: Neal,
...[truncated]...
5 tests 1 fails
test_backbone.R............... 416 tests 1 fails 5.7s
----- FAILED[data]: test_backbone.R<393--393>
call| expect_true(any(bb %in% c(-1)))
diff| Expected TRUE, got FALSE
Error: 1 out of 416 tests failed
Execution halted
OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 28, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 23, 2026
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r-release-windows-x86_64
tests
Running 'tinytest.R' [7s]
Running the tests in 'tests/tinytest.R' failed.
Complete output:
> if ( requireNamespace("tinytest", quietly=TRUE) ){
+ tinytest::test_package("backbone")
+ }
____ backbone v3.0.4
| _ \ Cite: Neal,
...[truncated]...
5 tests 1 fails
test_backbone.R............... 416 tests 1 fails 6.0s
----- FAILED[data]: test_backbone.R<393--393>
call| expect_true(any(bb %in% c(-1)))
diff| Expected TRUE, got FALSE
Error: 1 out of 416 tests failed
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 22, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 18, 2026
ERROR
r-devel-windows-x86_64
whether package can be installed
Installation failed. See 'd:/Rcompile/CRANpkg/local/4.6/backbone.Rcheck/00install.out' for details.
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 24, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 20, 2026
ERROR
r-release-windows-x86_64
tests
Running 'tinytest.R' [6s]
Running the tests in 'tests/tinytest.R' failed.
Complete output:
> if ( requireNamespace("tinytest", quietly=TRUE) ){
+ tinytest::test_package("backbone")
+ }
____ backbone v3.0.3
| _ \ Cite: Neal,
...[truncated]...
t_backbone.R............... 416 tests [0;31m1 fails[0m [0;34m5.5s[0m
----- FAILED[data]: test_backbone.R<393--393>
call| expect_true(any(bb %in% c(-1)))
diff| Expected TRUE, got FALSE
Error: 1 out of 416 tests failed
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
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