R Observatory: Metrics for robin version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

robin

2.0.0Package record

ROBustness in Network

1packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Valeria PolicastroCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Assesses the robustness of the community structure of a network found by one or more community detection algorithm to give indications about their reliability. It detects if the community structure found by a set of algorithms is statistically significant and compares the different selected detection algorithms on the same network. robin helps to choose among different community detection algorithms the one that better fits the network of interest. Reference in Policastro V., Righelli D., Carissimo A., Cutillo L., De Feis I. (2021) https://journal.r-project.org/archive/2021/RJ-2021-040/index.html.

Changes in 2.0.0

implementing robin class
adding plotMultiCompare function, to plot multiple community detection algorithms
new parallelization method with BiocParallel::bpparam()
implemented the possibility to have different arguments for different community detection algorithms
created one function for robinRobust with inside parallelized version
created one function for robinCompare with inside parallelized version
from igraph added Leiden new community detection algorithm
vignette updated

From inst/NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("robin", 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("ValeriaPolicastro/robin")

Development version from ValeriaPolicastro/robin. 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-robin

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-robin

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-06
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-10
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-09
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.0.0

READMEYes · 254 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 2.0.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 24 (11 internal)
Examples that run: 85%11 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

robin

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,619 · ~11/day · ~324/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

45830 days

1.1K90 days

3.9K1 year

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Also on76 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

valeriapolicastro/robin ↗Account: ValeriaPolicastro

21Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

516Commits

6Commit identities

516 commits · Last activity 2026-10-07 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.1.0, ahead of CRAN 2.0.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-24 · 202026-08-26 · 21

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/valeriapolicastro/robin on 2026-10-11.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing robin adds 107 packages (64 with compiled code, 90 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB. 1 more not on CRAN is not measured.

Depends (1)

igraph

Imports (12)

ggplot2 networkD3 DescTools fdatestmethodsgridExtra spam qpdfMatrixperturbR BiocParallel reshape2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

devtools knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

INetTool

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Valeria Policastro

Author, Maintainer since 0.99.0 (2019)

Author

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Releases (11)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.0.0Latest
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2025-01-22 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
plotMultiCompare
1.2.0
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2024-06-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
plotRobin, robinCompareFast
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-05-16
1.1.1
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-03-18
check problems were not corrected in time
1.1.0
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2022-03-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
robinCompareFast
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.3
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2021-02-09 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2020-10-30 · diff ↗
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2020-05-18 · diff ↗

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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0.99.0
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-10-20
Total releases: 11 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 703 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("robin")

Format

Policastro, V., Carissimo, A., Cutillo, L., De Feis, I., & Righelli, D. (2025). robin: ROBustness in Network (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.robin

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for robin version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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