R Observatory: Metrics for ergm version 4.12.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ergm

4.12.0Package record

Fit, Simulate and Diagnose Exponential-Family Models for Networks

29packages dependsuggested by 8

116.8Kdownloads / year

68.9%test coverage

7/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pavel N. KrivitskyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An integrated set of tools to analyze and simulate networks based on exponential-family random graph models (ERGMs). 'ergm' is a part of the Statnet suite of packages for network analysis. See Hunter, Handcock, Butts, Goodreau, and Morris (2008) doi:10.18637/jss.v024.i03 and Krivitsky, Hunter, Morris, and Klumb (2023) doi:10.18637/jss.v105.i06.

Changes in 4.12.0

NEW FEATURES

ergm() constraint now supports handles noncontiguous attributes in a user-specified manner via a noncontig= argument. At this time, only treating separate runs as separate blocks "split" is supported.
MCMC, CD, SAN, and MPLE sampling now produce cli progress bars.
ergm() (AsIs) operator can now handle character strings containing lists of terms.
nodal_attributes help and the Nodal Attribute Specification in ERGM Terms vignette now contain instructions for how to converting from base= and keep= arguments deprecated since ergm 3.9.4.

BUG FIXES

Some fixes to inadvertent partial matching and more uses of seq_len(n) instead of 1:n. (Thanks, Chung-hong Chan GitHub:@chainsawriot!)
esteq argument to the simulate.ergm() family of functions has been fixed.
Some typographical problems in the Nodal Attribute Specification in ERGM Terms vignette have been fixed.

OTHER USER-VISIBLE CHANGES

If an %ergmlhs% list is emptied out, it is now removed.
convert_ergmlhs() has been deprecated.

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Verbose printing for variance-based adaptive MCMC no longer creates a wall of text.

C-LEVEL FACILITIES

The C++ shim edge ranges now have a size() method.

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("ergm", 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("statnet/ergm")

Development version from statnet/ergm. 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-ergm

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-ergm

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-ergm

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

1WARNING5NOTE7OK

Check messages

WARNINGwhether package can be installedr-patched-linux-x86_64

Found the following significant warnings:
  Rd warning: B-ergmTerm-1e2e5333.Rd:65: no hsearch.rds meta data for package ergm
See ‘/home/hornik/tmp/R.check/r-patched-gcc/Work/PKGS/ergm.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.
* used C compiler: ‘gcc-16 (Debian 16.2.0-3) 16.2.0’
* used C++ compiler: ‘g++-16 (Debian 16.2.0-3) 16.2.0’

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  ergm/tests/testthat/test-update.network.R (.Dim: 2)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 15.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

WARNING7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-08-24
ERROR7 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-08-23
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 WARNING, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
WARNING10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.12.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 7 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 4.12.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 297 (62 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 68%26 run in a plain check · 7 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 37%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 74%
Help pages citing references: 15% with a bibliography file

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

116.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,177 · ~320/day · ~9.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

9K30 days

29K90 days

116.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u9 autocran9.2K conda_forge260 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

statnet/ergm ↗Organization: statnet

110Stars

44Forks

125Open issues

5Open PRs

0Releases

6,617Commits

28Commit identities

6,617 commits · Last activity 2026-10-20 · +0.9% stars, 30d · Default branch at 4.13.0-8251, ahead of CRAN 4.12.0 (checked 2026-10-21) · Discussions: 26 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 68%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 22
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-17 · 1032026-10-01 · 110

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/statnet/ergm on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

Lint workflowVS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-10-24
Seen in the repository: .github/workflows/copilot-setup-steps.yml
Pull request: opened by its own account
Commits: 3 by its own account · at least 3 crediting it in the message

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

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing ergm adds 31 packages (19 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, robustbase 2.2 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.2network

Imports (19)

robustbase coda trust lpSolveAPI statnet.common rle purrr rlang memoise (>= 2.0.1)tibble magrittr Rdpack (>= 2.6.4)knitr stringr cliMASSMatrixparallelmethods

LinkingTo (1)

cli

Suggests (11)

latticeExtra sna rmarkdown testthat ergm.count withr covr Rglpk slam networkLitelattice

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

29direct

10indirect

Depends 16 · Imports 13 · LinkingTo 9

Suggested by 8

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

broom tsna ndtv lolog netify ideanet sand motifr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (16)

Pavel N. Krivitsky

Author, Maintainer since 3.1-0 (2013) · added in 2.2-0

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Contributor · added in 3.5.1

Michał Bojanowski

Contributor · added in 3.11.0

Ben Bolker

Contributor · added in 3.11.0

Joyce Cheng

Contributor · added in 4.2.1

Arya Karami

Contributor · added in 4.5.0

Chad Klumb

Contributor · added in 3.10.1

Adrien Le Guillou

Contributor · added in 4.7.1

Kirk Li

Contributor · added in 3.2.3

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Christian Schmid

Contributor · added in 4.0.0

Li Wang

Contributor · added in 3.2.3

Previously maintained by David R. Hunter (2.2-2 to 3.0-3) and Mark S. Handcock (2.0 to 2.2-1).

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Steven M.