gretel

0.0.1

Generalized Path Analysis for Social Networks

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2.2Kdownloads / year

57.4%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by David BuchFirst published 2019-08-221 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The social network literature features numerous methods for assigning value to paths as a function of their ties. 'gretel' systemizes these approaches, casting them as instances of a generalized path value function indexed by a penalty parameter. The package also calculates probabilistic path value and identifies optimal paths in either value framework. Finally, proximity matrices can be generated in these frameworks that capture high-order connections overlooked in primitive adjacency sociomatrices. Novel methods are described in Buch (2019) https://davidbuch.github.io/analyzing-networks-with-gretel.html. More traditional methods are also implemented, as described in Yang, Knoke (2001) doi:10.1016/S0378-8733(01)00043-0.

Install

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

install.packages("gretel", 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("davidbuch/gretel")

Development version from davidbuch/gretel. 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-gretel

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-gretel

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-gretel

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.17

57.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-04-22
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ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 118 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 15%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,894 · ~6/day · ~185/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ davidbuch/gretel

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17 commits · Last activity 2019-10-14

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Repository practices

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (2)

Rcpp ResistorArray

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

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none

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

David Buch

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Authors (1)

David Buch

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2019-08-22
Total releases: 1 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 0.4 KB / 3 files
Download size: 32 KB
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