R Observatory: Metrics for network version 1.20.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

network

1.20.0Package record

Classes for Relational Data

88packages dependsuggested by 27

446.2Kdownloads / year

55.1%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carter T. ButtsCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Tools to create and modify network objects. The network class can represent a range of relational data types, and supports arbitrary vertex/edge/graph attributes.

Install

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

install.packages("network", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-network

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-network

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-network

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  network/tests/network.battery.R (.Dim: 1)
  network/tests/testthat/test-as.edgelist.R (.Dim: 7)
  network/tests/testthat/test-dataframe.R (.Dim: 22)
  network/tests/testthat/test-mixingmatrix.R (.Dim: 2, .Dimnames: 2)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.20.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 45 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%39 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 90%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 71%

Vignettes (1)

network Vignette PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

446.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #621 · ~1.2K/day · ~37.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30.8K30 days

95.2K90 days

446.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on5.6K r2u258 autocran14.2K conda_forge212 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing network adds 12 packages (8 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10utils

Imports (4)

tibble magrittr statnet.commonstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

sna testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

88direct

53indirect

Depends 24 · Imports 64 · LinkingTo 1

Suggested by 27

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 40 more dependents and 27 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Carter T. Butts

Author, Maintainer since 0.5-4 (2005)

Skye Bender-deMoll

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

Michał Bojanowski

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

Mark Handcock

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

Jeffrey Horner

Contributor · added in 1.10.2

David Hunter

Contributor · added in 1.3

Chad Klumb

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

Brendan Knapp

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

Pavel N. Krivitsky

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

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Li Wang

Contributor · added in 1.14-377

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Mark S. Handcock

no longer listed · 0.5-4 to 1.7.2

with help from David Hunter

no longer listed · 0.5-4 to 1.2

Releases (35)

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-08-20
Total releases: 35 / 21 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 7.3 KB / 2 files
Download size: 504 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for network version 1.20.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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