R Observatory: Metrics for netUtils version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

netUtils

1.0.0Package record

A Collection of Tools for Network Analysis

0packages depend

5.7Kdownloads / year

89.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David SchochCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a collection of network analytic (convenience) functions which are missing in other standard packages. This includes triad census with attributes doi:10.1016/j.socnet.2019.04.003, core-periphery models doi:10.1016/S0378-8733(99)00019-2, and several graph generators. Most functions are build upon 'igraph'.

Changes in 1.0.0

This release fixes a number of bugs found in a code review. Some fixes change results, notably dyad_census_attr(), triad_census_attr() (030C orientations), graph_cor() (diagonal now excluded by default) and sample_lfr() (now uses R's random number generator).

dyad_census_attr() fixed: asymmetric dyads were dropped when a group pair had edges in one direction only, and within-group asymmetric dyads were always reported as 0. Named vertices returned all zeros and graphs without edges errored. Within-group rows now report the total asymmetric count in asym_ab and NA in asym_ba. Multiple edges and loops are ignored.
dyad_census_attr() and triad_census_attr() now validate that the vertex attribute holds positive integers without missing values.
triad_census_attr() rewritten: it now runs in roughly O(m * max degree) instead of O(n^3), e.g. seconds instead of hours for thousands of nodes.
triad_census_attr() fixed: the two orientations of cyclic triads (030C) with three distinct attributes were merged into T030C-abc; T030C-cba is now counted correctly. With more than nine attribute values, names are separated by dots (T030C-1.2.10) to avoid ambiguous labels. Multiple edges and loops are ignored.
dropped the RcppArmadillo dependency.
str.igraph() no longer fails for graphs with a single edge and only appends "..." to truncated attributes.
bipartite_from_data_frame() now handles numeric and factor columns (they were used as vertex ids or factor codes), and merging multiple edges no longer fails with non-numeric edge attributes.
structural_equivalence() now works with multiple edges and no longer needs memory quadratic in the number of vertices.
sample_coreseq() now rejects impossible coreness sequences (a k-core needs at least k + 1 nodes) and invalid input.
graph_cartesian() and graph_direct() keep vertex pairs without edges, and are vectorized.
as_adj_list1() now returns all neighbors of directed graphs, as documented (it returned only out-neighbors).

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graph_cor() now excludes the diagonal by default, the standard definition of graph correlation. Use diag = TRUE for the previous behavior. For igraph objects, the new attr argument selects an edge attribute as weights.
graph_kpartite() now uses igraph::make_full_multipartite(), errors if the partition sizes do not sum to n and stores the partition in the vertex attribute type. The documentation now correctly says it creates a complete k-partite graph.
graph_from_multi_edgelist() stores the weight column as edge attribute weight, so the graphs are weighted, and validates it.
split_graph() validates core.
as_adj_weighted(), as_multi_adj(), graph_cor() and core_periphery() work with the upcoming igraph 3.0.0 and keep using unweighted adjacency matrices unless an edge attribute is given.
removed the internal, unexported fast_cliques().
requires igraph >= 2.3.0.
sample_pa_homophilic() is faster, validates its input and has working examples; results for a given seed are unchanged.
core_periphery(method = "SA") now actually runs the GA method as announced in its deprecation warning (it returned nothing before).
sample_lfr() now uses R's random number generator, so results are reproducible with set.seed() (before, set.seed() had no effect).
sample_lfr() with overlapping nodes (on > 0) now works (it errored before): V(g)$membership holds the first community of each vertex and the new list attribute V(g)$memberships holds all communities of each vertex.
sample_lfr() now reports invalid parameter combinations detected by the generator as informative R errors instead of "negative length vectors are not allowed", validates on, om, min_community and max_community, and is silent unless the new verbose = TRUE is set. It warns if the degree sequence had to be changed.
sample_lfr() can be interrupted and no longer risks endless loops when rewiring links. Unused C++ code of the LFR generator was removed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("netUtils", 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("schochastics/netUtils")

Development version from schochastics/netUtils. 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-netutils

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-netUtils

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-netUtils

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: 3.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 1.0.0

READMEYes · 250 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.0Citation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 100%16 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 29%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,796 · ~15/day · ~471/mo

Releases R versions

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58330 days

1.4K90 days

5.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

schochastics/netutils ↗Account: schochastics

15Stars

2Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

122Commits

2Commit identities

network-analysisrstatsrstats-package

122 commits · Last activity 2026-09-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-09-11 · 142026-07-07 · 15

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/schochastics/netutils on 2026-10-18.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-30

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen on or before 2026-09-30
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 7 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.57 commits · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing netUtils adds 10 packages (7 with compiled code, 9.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

Rcpp igraphstats

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (3)

covr GA testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

David Schoch

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.0 (2022)

Releases (9)

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-08-27
Total releases: 9 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 66 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for netUtils version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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