R Observatory: Metrics for mpaR version 0.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mpaR

0.5.0

Main Path Analysis for Citation and Directed Networks

0packages depend

450downloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paulo H ResendeFirst published 2026-06-262 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements Main Path Analysis (MPA) as introduced by Hummon and Doreian (1989) doi:10.1016/0378-8733(89)90017-8. Given a directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing a citation or precedence network, the package computes traversal weights (SPC, SPLC, SPNP) for each edge and extracts the global, local, and key-route main paths. Also provides tools for DAG validation, node role classification (source/terminal/user), per-component path extraction for disconnected networks, and scale-free network testing. Accepts 'igraph' objects or edge-list data frames as input. Includes readers for 'Pajek' (.net) and 'Gephi' export (.gexf, .graphml) files.

Install

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

install.packages("mpaR", 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("resendeph/mpaR")

Development version from resendeph/mpaR. 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-mpar

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-mpaR

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-mpaR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.23

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-27
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 56%

Downloads

450

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,168 · ~1/day · ~38/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

21330 days

45090 days

4501 year

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Also on15 r2u19 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ resendeph/mpar

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

21Commits

1Contributors

21 commits · Last activity 2026-07-23

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 02026-08-04 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/resendeph/mpar on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

igraphmethodsrlangtoolsxml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

openalexR testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Paulo H Resende

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Paulo H Resende

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

2 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.5.0Latest
2026-07-24 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.0
2026-06-26
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-26
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 49 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mpaR")

Format

Resende, P. H. (2026). mpaR: Main Path Analysis for Citation and Directed Networks (Version 0.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mpaR

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 mpaR version 0.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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