R Observatory: Metrics for fastnet version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fastnet

1.0.0Package record

Large-Scale Social Network Analysis

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nazrul ShaikhCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

We present an implementation of the algorithms required to simulate large-scale social networks and retrieve their most relevant metrics. Details can be found in the accompanying scientific paper on the Journal of Statistical Software, doi:10.18637/jss.v096.i07.

Changes in 1.0.0

Resolved a scalablity issue in metric.distance.apl()
Added random seed as an optional argument of net.erdos.renyi.gnp()
Added random seed as an optional argument of net.rewired.caveman()
Added Degree-Constraint network generation algorithm
Added Cluster-Affiliation network generation algorithm
Added JSS citation information

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fastnet", 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("networkgroupR/fastnet")

Development version from networkgroupR/fastnet. 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-fastnet

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-fastnet

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-fastnet

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: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 47
Examples that run: 4%2 run in a plain check · 43 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 51%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,252 · ~9/day · ~285/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

35930 days

89590 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on96 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

networkgroupr/fastnet ↗Account: networkgroupR

5Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

10Commits

1Commit identities

10 commits · Last activity 2017-06-05 · The default branch showed an older version (0.1.3) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2024-04-15 · 52026-07-07 · 5

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/networkgroupr/fastnet on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fastnet adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (4)

doParallel foreach igraph tidygraph

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Nazrul Shaikh

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2016)

Luis Castro

Author

Xu Dong

Author

Christian Llano

Contributor

Releases (7)

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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0Latest
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2020-12-01 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
neighbors

added 3 exports
get.neighbors, net.cluster.affiliation, net.degree.constraint
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-09-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
from.csc, from.csr
0.1.5
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2018-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 6 exports
dist.deg, draw.degdist, draw.degdist.cum, draw.degdist.cum.log, draw.degdist.log, histo.dist

added 3 exports
degree.collect, degree.dist, degree.hist
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.4
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2018-02-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
from.csc, from.csr, from.statnet, to.edgelist, to.igraph, to.tidygraph
0.1.3
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2017-06-05 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.2
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2017-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
from.adjacency, from.edgelist, from.igraph

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0.1.1
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2016-12-30
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-30
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 33 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("fastnet")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v096.i07.

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 fastnet version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-19, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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