blockmodels

1.1.5

Latent and Stochastic Block Model Estimation by a 'V-EM' Algorithm

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13.3Kdownloads / year

78.9%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Jean-Benoist LegerFirst published 2015-04-154 releasesCRAN page ↗

Latent and Stochastic Block Model estimation by a Variational EM algorithm. Various probability distribution are provided (Bernoulli, Poisson...), with or without covariates.

Install

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

install.packages("blockmodels", 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-blockmodels

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-blockmodels

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (4)

Rcppparallelmethodsdigest

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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GREMLINS expSBM graphclust mimiSBM robber sbm missSBM sand

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Listed in earlier versions (4)

INRA

no longer listed · 1.0.4 to 1.1.1

Jean-Benoist Leger

no longer listed · 1.0.4 to 1.1.5

Pierre Barbillon

no longer listed · 1.1.4 to 1.1.5

Julien Chiquet

no longer listed · 1.1.4 to 1.1.5

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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2015-04-15

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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2015-04-15
Total releases: 4 / 11 yrs
License: LGPL-2.1 OSI
Download size: 43 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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