R Observatory: Metrics for influential version 2.3.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

influential

2.3.3Package record

Identification and Classification of the Most Influential Nodes

1packages depend

8.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Adrian SalavatyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides functions for the identification, classification, and ranking of influential nodes and candidate features from network and omics data. The package implements the Integrated Value of Influence (IVI) for integrative network centrality analysis, the SIR-based Influence Ranking (SIRIR) model for unsupervised influence ranking, and the Experimental data-based Integrative Ranking (ExIR) model for prioritizing candidate driver, biomarker, and mediator features from experimental omics data. Functions are provided for network reconstruction from adjacency matrices and data frames, topological analysis, centrality calculation, assessment of associations between centrality measures, and conditional probability analysis. ExIR supports bulk and single-cell omics data, including matrices, sparse matrices, data frames, tibbles, and Seurat objects.

Changes in 2.3.3

Bundled apps work with current Shiny and igraph
Debug fcor function.
Debug sirir function so that it works with character vector inputs as well.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("influential", 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("asalavaty/influential")

Development version from asalavaty/influential. 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-influential

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-influential

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-influential

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: 3.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-28
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-27
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.3.3

READMEYes · 749 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.3.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 28 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%22 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 4%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to influential

How these are measured

Downloads

8.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,565 · ~23/day · ~688/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

2.9K90 days

8.3K1 year

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Also on206 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

asalavaty/influential ↗Account: asalavaty

30Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

17Releases

423Commits

3Commit identities

network-analysispriaritization-modelinfluence-rankingcentrality-measuresclassification-modelrr-package

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 423 commits · Last activity 2026-10-06 · -3.2% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-06 · 272026-10-06 · 30

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/asalavaty/influential on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-07

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

28 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing influential adds 53 packages (28 with compiled code, 49 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB. 1 more not on CRAN is not measured.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (13)

igraph irlba edgeR cliMatrixSeuratObject tibble janitor ranger foreach doParallel ggplot2 Rcpp

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (16)

Hmiscmgcvnortest NNS BiocManager readr shiny shinythemes shinyWidgets shinyjs shinycssloaders colourpicker magrittr DT knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

networksem

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Adrian Salavaty

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Peter D. Currie

Thesis advisor · added in 1.1.0

Mirana Ramialison

Thesis advisor · added in 1.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Abbas Salavaty

no longer listed · 2.2.5 to 2.2.9

Peter D.

no longer listed · 2.3.0 to 2.3.3

Releases (21)

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2.3.3Latest
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2.3.2
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2.3.1
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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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2023-05-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.2.6
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2022-08-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
fcor
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-04-14 · diff ↗
2.2.4
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2021-11-01 · diff ↗
2.2.3
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2021-07-17 · diff ↗

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.2.2
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2.2.1
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2021-04-24 · diff ↗
2.2.0
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2021-04-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
comp_manipulate, runShinyApp
2.0.1
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2020-11-20 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2020-09-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
cent_network.vis, exir.vis, graph_from_incidence_matrix
1.1.2
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2020-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
diff_data.assembly
1.1.1
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2020-06-24 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2020-06-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
clusterrank

added 3 exports
clusterRank, exir, sif2igraph
1.0.0
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2020-04-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ihs

added 9 exports
clusterrank, collective.influence, h_index, hubness.score, ivi, ivi.from.indices, lh_index, sirir, spreading.score
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
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2020-02-17
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-17
Total releases: 21 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 18 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

Appears in task views

Network Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("influential")

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

It points to 10.1016/j.patter.2020.100052, 10.1016/j.isci.2026.116303.

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 influential version 2.3.3 [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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