R Observatory: Metrics for sna version 2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sna

2.8Package record

Tools for Social Network Analysis

49packages dependsuggested by 22

342.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carter T. ButtsCRAN page ↗Website ↗

A range of tools for social network analysis, including node and graph-level indices, structural distance and covariance methods, structural equivalence detection, network regression, random graph generation, and 2D/3D network visualization.

Install

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

install.packages("sna", 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-sna

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-sna

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-sna

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: 4.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.8

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 156 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 95%110 run in a plain check · 6 never run
Exported functions with examples: not tracked
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 99%

How these are measured

Downloads

342.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #689 · ~939/day · ~28.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

24.7K30 days

77.2K90 days

342.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.4K r2u175 autocran10.7K conda_forge239 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sna adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.0.0utilsstatnet.common network

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rgl numDeriv SparseM

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

49direct

33indirect

Depends 8 · Imports 41

Suggested by 22

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 1 more dependent and 22 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Carter T. Butts

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Butts

no longer listed · 2.3-1 to 2.8

Releases (29)

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Package metadata

First published: 2001-05-28
Total releases: 29 / 25 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0.0
Bundled data: 1.2 KB / 1 file
Download size: 298 KB

Appears in task views

Bayesian Inference Graphical Models Network Analysis Optimization and Mathematical Programming

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sna")

Format

Butts, C. T. (2024). sna: Tools for Social Network Analysis (Version 2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sna

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

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sna version 2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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