R Observatory: Metrics for rgexf version 0.17.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rgexf

0.17.0Package record

Build, Import, and Export GEXF Graph Files

0packages dependsuggested by 2

12.4Kdownloads / year

53.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by George Vega YonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create, read, and write 'GEXF' (Graph Exchange 'XML' Format) graph files (used in 'Gephi' and others). Using the 'XML' package, rgexf allows reading and writing GEXF files, including attributes, 'GEXF' visual attributes (such as color, size, and position), network dynamics (for both edges and nodes), and edges' weights. Users can build/handle graphs element-by-element or massively through data frames, visualize the graph on a web browser through 'gexf-js' (a 'javascript' library), and interact with the 'igraph' package.

Changes in 0.17.0

**rgexf is back on CRAN!** The package was archived on CRAN on 2026-05-18

because outstanding check issues were not corrected in time. This release

fixes those issues and returns the package to CRAN.

New features and changes

plot.gexf() now renders graphs as an interactive htmlwidget powered by sigma.js v3 and graphology. Node positions, colours, and sizes are read from the viz:* attributes in the GEXF document.
New sigmajs() function creates a sigma.js htmlwidget from a gexf object or a path to a .gexf file. Shiny helpers sigmajsOutput() and renderSigmajs() are also available.
The legacy gexf-js file-server renderer is preserved as plot_gexfjs(). The gexfjs() htmlwidget (inline iframe approach) is likewise kept for backward compatibility.

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gexfjs() now accepts a gexf object in addition to a file path, matching sigmajs().
gexfjs() has an explicit sizing policy: the widget now defaults to the full available width ("100%") and a height of "400px" in knitr documents, the browser, and Shiny alike. Both gexfjs() and sigmajs() honor user-supplied width/height, and their documented defaults were clarified.

Bug fixes

The gexfjs() widget rendered an empty main canvas: the bundled config.js (which sets zoomLevel, showEdges, and other gexf-js defaults) was never loaded into the iframe, making every screen coordinate NaN.
Icons and images in the gexfjs() widget (zoom, lens, edge buttons, search icon, Gephi logo) did not display: relative url(...) references in the CSS cannot resolve inside a srcdoc iframe, so images are now inlined as base64 data URIs.
The gexfjs() widget's node-attribute panel was blank and search did not work: the generated DOM was missing the #leftcontent element, the search form id had a typo (reacherche), and the autocomplete list was clipped by the title bar.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rgexf", 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("gvegayon/rgexf")

Development version from gvegayon/rgexf. 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-rgexf

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-rgexf

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-rgexf

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: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-07-24
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.17.0

READMEYes · 1,462 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.17.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Cites a JOSS paper

Help pages: 18includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check (9 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 81%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Also includes 11 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

12.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,211 · ~34/day · ~1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

3.7K90 days

12.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on204 r2u4 autocran12.6K conda_forge97 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gvegayon/rgexf ↗Account: gvegayon

32Stars

8Forks

10Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

222Commits

9Commit identities

gephigexfgexf-graph-filesrpackagerxmlsocial-network

222 commits · Last activity 2026-10-12

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 623
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Forks over time

2026-07-24 · 82026-09-21 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gvegayon/rgexf 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

Governance and community (3)

Code of conductFunding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.qmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 5 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDev Container

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-11-24
Seen in the repository: .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 2 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-22
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 8 crediting it in the message
Codexfirst seen 2026-07-22
Commits: at least 2 crediting it in the message

Review tools

Copilot code review
Commits: at least 1 accepting its review suggestions

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 5.53 commits · Oct 2026
Claude Opus 4.82 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 51 commit · Aug 2026
Claude Opus 5.51 commit · Oct 2026
Claude Sonnet 51 commit · 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

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rgexf adds 39 packages (22 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

XML igraphgrDevicesutilsservr htmlwidgets jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown tinytest covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

meconetcomp vkR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

George Vega Yon

Author, Maintainer since 0.12.06 (2012)

Jorge Fábrega Lacoa

Contributor · added in 0.14.3.11

Joshua Kunst

Contributor · added in 0.16.0

Gephi Consortium

Copyright holder · added in 0.16.0

GEXF language

Raphaël Velt

Copyright holder · added in 0.16.0

gexf-js library

Jonathan Cardoso Silva

Reviewer · added in 0.16.2

JOSS reviewer

Cornelius Fritz

Reviewer · added in 0.16.2

JOSS reviewer

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Jorge Fabrega Lacoa

no longer listed · 0.12.06 to 0.13.8

Joshua B. Kunst

no longer listed · 0.13.8 to 0.15.3

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-07-23
0.17.0Latest
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2026-07-23 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
gexfjs, gexfjsOutput, plot_gexfjs, renderGexfjs, renderSigmajs, sigmajs, sigmajsOutput
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2026-05-18
issues were not corrected despite reminders
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.16.3
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2024-07-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.16.2
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2021-08-12 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-02-17
0.16.0
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2020-02-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 11 exports
.addNodesEdges, .defAtt, .parseEdgesVizAtt, .parseNodesVizAtt, .parseEdgesWeight, .parseEdgesAtt, .parseEdgesId, .parseNodesAtt, .parseEdgesLabel, .parseDataTypes, .build.and.validate.gexf

added 2 exports
gexf, gexf_js_config
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-01-16
check issues were not corrected in time Invalid writes reported by valgrind
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.15.3
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2015-03-24 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2014-12-22
maintainer address <george.vega@nodoschile.org> bounced
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.14.3.11
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2014-03-11 · diff ↗
0.13.8
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2013-08-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
.parseDataTypes, .build.and.validate.gexf, igraph.to.gexf, gexf.to.igraph
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.13.03
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2013-03-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 11 exports
.parseEdgesVizAtt, .parseNodesVizAtt, .parseEdgesWeight, .parseEdgesAtt, .parseEdgesId, .parseNodesAtt, .parseEdgesLabel, add.node.spell, add.edge.spell, check.dpl.edges, switch.edges
0.13.01
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2013-01-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
gexf

added 8 exports
write.gexf, read.gexf, new.gexf.graph, add.gexf.node, rm.gexf.node, add.gexf.edge, rm.gexf.edge, edge.list
0.12.06
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2012-06-19
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-06-19
Total releases: 10 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 3) in 0.16.0
Bundled data: 32 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rgexf")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rgexf version 0.17.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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