R Observatory: Metrics for spreadr version 0.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

spreadr

0.3.0Package record

Simulating Spreading Activation in a Network

0packages dependsuggested by 1

2.2Kdownloads / year

95.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cynthia SiewCRAN page ↗Website ↗

The notion of spreading activation is a prevalent metaphor in the cognitive sciences. This package provides the tools for cognitive scientists and psychologists to conduct computer simulations that implement spreading activation in a network representation. The algorithmic method implemented in 'spreadr' subroutines follows the approach described in Vitevitch, Ercal, and Adagarla (2011, Frontiers), who viewed activation as a fixed cognitive resource that could spread among nodes that were connected to each other via edges or connections (i.e., a network). See Vitevitch, M. S., Ercal, G., & Adagarla, B. (2011). Simulating retrieval from a highly clustered network: Implications for spoken word recognition. Frontiers in Psychology, 2, 369. doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2011.00369 and Siew, C. S. Q. (2019). spreadr: A R package to simulate spreading activation in a network. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 910-929. <doi: 10.3758/s13428-018-1186-5>.

Changes in 0.3.0

bug fixes

removed the extrafont dependency which caused package to be removed from CRAN in Sep 2025
fixed (#7) issue - weighted graphs with negative edge weights will be thrown an error
fixed (#4) issue - weighted igraph objects retain their weights in the converted adjacency matrix

others

a new hex logo and website added

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("spreadr", 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-spreadr

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-spreadr

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-spreadr

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK5 OK2026-05-31

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.0

READMEYes · 455 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction

How these are measured

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,203 · ~6/day · ~180/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43530 days

1.2K90 days

2.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on485 r2u8 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

csqsiew/spreadr ↗Account: csqsiew

11Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

41Commits

3Commit identities

41 commits · Last activity 2026-05-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 27
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-14 · 102026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/csqsiew/spreadr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-27 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-27, before release 0.3.0 (2026-05-30)

CRAN release process (3)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing spreadr adds 11 packages (7 with compiled code, 9.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10Rcpp

Imports (3)

Matrixassertthat igraph

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (9)

dplyr fs ggplot2 gganimate ggraph gifski knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

SemNeT

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Cynthia Siew

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2018)

Ning Yuan Lee

Contributor

Dirk U. Wulff

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Dirk U.

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.3.0

Ning Yuan

no longer listed · 0.2.0 to 0.3.0

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2026-05-30
0.3.0Latest
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2026-05-30 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2025-09-09
requires archived package 'extrafont'
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.0
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2021-05-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
spreadr_2
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1.0
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2018-11-19
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-11-19
Total releases: 3 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.5 KB / 2 files
Download size: 779 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("spreadr")

Format

Siew, C., Lee, N. Y., & Wulff, D. U. (2026). spreadr: Simulating Spreading Activation in a Network (Version 0.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.spreadr

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

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 spreadr version 0.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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