R Observatory: Metrics for complexNet version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

complexNet

0.2.0Package record

Complex Network Generation

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Marco SmollaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Providing a set of functions to easily generate and iterate complex networks. The functions can be used to generate realistic networks with a wide range of different clustering, density, and average path length. For more information consult research articles by Amiyaal Ilany and Erol Akcay (2016) doi:10.1093/icb/icw068 and Ilany and Erol Akcay (2016) doi:10.1101/026120, which have inspired many methods in this package.

Changes in 0.2.0

Major changes

Adding two new functions (make_kp and iterate_kp) that allow to generate and iterate kp networks, where k is the degree a new individual is aiming for and p is the proportion of socially inherited links (1-p is the proportion of random links).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("complexNet", 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("marcosmolla/complexNet")

Development version from marcosmolla/complexNet. 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-complexnet

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-complexNet

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-complexNet

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: 58 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 502 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 17%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to complexNet HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,521 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22430 days

68090 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on88 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

marcosmolla/complexnet ↗Account: marcosmolla

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

61Commits

3Commit identities

complex-networkssocial-inheritancesocial-networks

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 61 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/marcosmolla/complexnet on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing complexNet adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

methods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Marco Smolla

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.0Latest
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2022-11-10 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
avg_degree_brn

added 3 exports
avg_degree_bnr, iterate_kp, make_kp
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.0
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2021-03-31
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-31
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 13 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("complexNet")

Format

Smolla, M. (2022). complexNet: Complex Network Generation (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.complexNet

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for complexNet version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-25, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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