R Observatory: Metrics for backbone version 3.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

backbone

3.0.4Package record

Extracts the Backbone from Networks

0packages dependsuggested by 2

11.5Kdownloads / year

62.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zachary NealCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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).

Changes in 3.0.4

perform parameter/input checks inside each backbone_from_ function
updated citation

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("backbone", 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("zpneal/backbone")

Development version from zpneal/backbone. 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-backbone

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-backbone

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-backbone

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: 3.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-12
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-08
OK13 OK2026-08-05

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-03
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-30
OK13 OK2026-05-28
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-23
OK14 OK2026-04-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-21
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.0.4

READMEYes · 253 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.0.4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 15 (8 internal)
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 43%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 43%
Help pages citing references: 40%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

11.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,713 · ~32/day · ~962/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

94530 days

2.6K90 days

11.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on535 r2u54 autocran8.5K conda_forge121 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

zpneal/backbone ↗Account: zpneal

49Stars

9Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

19Releases

863Commits

5Commit identities

863 commits · Last activity 2026-05-21 · +2.1% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-15 · 442026-09-25 · 49

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/zpneal/backbone on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing backbone adds 10 packages (7 with compiled code, 9.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (7)

graphicsigraphMatrixmethodsstatsRcpputils

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

cograph incidentally

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Zachary Neal

Author, Maintainer since 1.5.0 (2021)

Rachel Domagalski

Contributor

Karl Godard

Contributor · added in 2.0.1

Bruce Sagan

Contributor

Previously maintained by Rachel Domagalski (1.0.0 to 1.4.0).

Releases (25)

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3.0.4Latest
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2026-05-20 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.0.3
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2025-12-08 · diff ↗
3.0.2
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2025-10-06 · diff ↗
3.0.1
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2025-09-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
backbone
3.0.0
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2025-09-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 17 exports
backbone.extract, backbone.suggest, global, logit, osdsm, pb, sparsify, sparsify.with.geometric, sparsify.with.gspar, sparsify.with.hypergeometric, sparsify.with.jaccard, sparsify.with.localdegree, sparsify.with.lspar, sparsify.with.meetmin, sparsify.with.quadrilateral, sparsify.with.simmelian, sparsify.with.skeleton

added 3 exports
backbone_from_projection, backbone_from_unweighted, backbone_from_weighted
2.1.5
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.1.4
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.1.3
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lans, logit, mlf
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.2
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2.1.1
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hyperg, universal
2.1.0
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removed 4 exports
bipartite.add.blocks, bipartite.from.distribution, bipartite.from.probability, bipartite.from.sequence

added 1 export
pb
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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2.0.3
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2022-03-22 · diff ↗
2.0.2
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2.0.1
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2022-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
curveball, fdsm.trials
2.0.0
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2021-12-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
backbone.suggest, disparity, fastball, fdsm.trials, global, osdsm, sparsify, sparsify.with.geometric, sparsify.with.gspar, sparsify.with.hypergeometric, sparsify.with.jaccard, sparsify.with.localdegree, sparsify.with.lspar, sparsify.with.meetmin, sparsify.with.quadrilateral, sparsify.with.simmelian, sparsify.with.skeleton
1.5.1
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bipartite.add.blocks, bipartite.from.distribution, bipartite.from.probability, bipartite.from.sequence
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.4.0
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2021-04-01 · diff ↗ ·
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bipartite.null

added 3 exports
fixedcol, fixedfill, fixedrow
1.3.1
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1.3.0
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polytope

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bicm, bipartite.null
1.2.2
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1.2.0
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curveball, polytope
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
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1.0.0
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2019-09-19
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-09-19
Total releases: 25 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 232 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.3 MB

Appears in task views

Graphical Models Network Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("backbone")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for backbone version 3.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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