R Observatory: Metrics for snahelper version 1.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

snahelper

1.4.2Package record

'RStudio' Addin for Network Analysis and Visualization

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

'RStudio' addin which provides a GUI to visualize and analyse networks. After finishing a session, the code to produce the plot is inserted in the current script. Alternatively, the function SNAhelperGadget() can be used directly from the console. Additional addins include the Netreader() for reading network files, Netbuilder() to create small networks via point and click, and the Componentlayouter() to layout networks with many components manually.

Changes in 1.4.2

partial code refactoring and new code style

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("snahelper", 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/snahelper")

Development version from schochastics/snahelper. 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-snahelper

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-snahelper

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-snahelper

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: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
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 1.4.2

READMEYes · 638 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check (under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 25%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,849 · ~9/day · ~277/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39630 days

86790 days

3.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on86 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

schochastics/snahelper ↗Account: schochastics

88Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

106Commits

3Commit identities

rstudio-addinrnetwork-analysis

106 commits · Last activity 2025-10-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 21
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2024-08-17 · 882026-08-02 · 88

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/schochastics/snahelper on 2026-10-11.

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 (5)

README.RmdpkgdownQuarto project

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-22 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-10-22

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Binder

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing snahelper adds 80 packages (43 with compiled code, 77 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (10)

ggraph graphlayouts igraph formatR miniUI rstudioapi ggplot2 shiny colourpicker DT

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

ggforce

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

David Schoch

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2019)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.2Latest
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2023-11-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.1
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2022-09-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.4.0
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2021-12-17 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2021-09-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
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2020-09-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ComponentlayouterAddin
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
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2020-03-04 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2019-09-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
NetbuilderAddin, NetreaderAddin
0.3.0
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2019-07-03
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-03
Total releases: 8 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 19 KB

Appears in task views

Network Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("snahelper")

Format

Schoch, D. (2023). snahelper: 'RStudio' Addin for Network Analysis and Visualization (Version 1.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.snahelper

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for snahelper version 1.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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