R Observatory: Metrics for netplot version 0.4-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

netplot

0.4-0Package record

Beautiful Graph Drawing

1packages dependsuggested by 1

5.5Kdownloads / year

62.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

A graph visualization engine that emphasizes on aesthetics at the same time providing default parameters that yield out-of-the-box-nice visualizations. The package is built on top of 'The Grid Graphics Package' and seamlessly work with 'igraph' and 'network' objects.

Changes in 0.4-0

Attribute formulas for vertex.nsides, vertex.size, and edge.width now evaluate the right-hand side against the graph's attributes, so expressions such as edge.width = ~ log1p(weight) or vertex.size = ~ degree ^ 2 work in addition to bare attribute names. Previously any non-trivial right-hand side failed with a cryptic the condition has length > 1 error. Missing attributes now produce a clear, informative message.
vertex.color = ~ attr now draws a legend appropriate to the attribute type: a categorical key for discrete attributes (factor, logical, low-cardinality integer) and a continuous **color bar** for continuous ones.
Documentation overhaul: nplot() now documents the formula interface for mapping vertex/edge aesthetics from graph attributes, the README highlights what sets netplot apart, a package-level help page was added, and the pkgdown reference is organized by feature.

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New vignette "formulas" demonstrating how to color, shape, and size vertices (and scale edge widths) from graph attributes using formulas.
nplot.network() now uses the "weight" edge attribute for edge.width by default (like nplot.igraph() already did), so edge widths reflect edge weights instead of being drawn uniformly. edge.width values are also explicitly re-applied to each edge grob after color post-processing to keep the drawn line widths robust. Closes #17.
edge.width.range, vertex.size.range, and vertex.label.range now accept NULL to suppress scaling and use the supplied values as-is.
Fixed vertex.rot, which was truncated to an integer and so ignored fractional (radian) rotations; the named "square" shape orientation was corrected as well.
edge.line.lty is now validated to be length 1 or one value per plotted edge, and is subset correctly when sample.edges drops edges.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("netplot", 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("USCCANA/netplot")

Development version from USCCANA/netplot. 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-netplot

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-netplot

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-netplot

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: 13.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-07

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OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4-0

READMEYes · 406 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4-0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 73%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

5.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,130 · ~15/day · ~456/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

50130 days

1.3K90 days

5.5K1 year

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Also on767 r2u11 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

usccana/netplot ↗Organization: USCCANA

53Stars

2Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

144Commits

3Commit identities

rstatsrpackagenetwork-analysisnetwork-visualizationigraphgraph-visualizationnetscisna

144 commits · Last activity 2026-09-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 276
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-12 · 522026-07-07 · 53

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/usccana/netplot on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowAppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Funding

Funding links: GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (4)

README.qmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDev Container

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Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-06-30
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 1 crediting it in the message
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-22
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: at least 3 crediting it in the message
Codexfirst seen 2026-08-15
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.82 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 51 commit · Aug 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

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing netplot adds 16 packages (11 with compiled code, 10 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: igraph 4.8 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4.0grid

Imports (6)

graphicsgrDevicesigraph network snastats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

knitr rmarkdown markdown igraphdata intergraph ggraph gridGraphics ggplot2 gridExtra gridBase magrittr tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tabulergm

Suggests, most downloaded first

epiworldR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

George Vega Yon

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2021)

Porter Bischoff

Author · added in 0.2-0

Releases (4)

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0.4-0Latest
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2026-07-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3-0
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2024-06-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2-0
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2023-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
locate_vertex, nplot_legend
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-06-16
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 4.9 MB

Appears in task views

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("netplot")

Format

Vega Yon, G., & Bischoff, P. (2026). netplot: Beautiful Graph Drawing (Version 0.4-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.netplot

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

The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for netplot version 0.4-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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