network

1.20.0

Classes for Relational Data

110packages depend

453.2Kdownloads / year

55.1%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Carter T. ButtsFirst published 2005-08-2035 releasesCRAN page ↗

Tools to create and modify network objects. The network class can represent a range of relational data types, and supports arbitrary vertex/edge/graph attributes.

Install

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

install.packages("network", 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-network

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

# 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-network

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-network

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.27

55.1%

Coverage · measured lines

87%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 71%

Downloads

453.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #615 · ~1.2K/day · ~37.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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453.2K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10utils

Imports (4)

tibble magrittr statnet.commonstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

sna testthat covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

110direct

49indirect

and 63 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 12,591 (59%)Rd 4,658 (22%)C 3,371 (16%)Vignettes 830 (4%)Other 11 (0%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S373

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 97 max
Test cases: 134 / 0.27 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

55%

Expression

53.3%

Tests / Examples

55.1% / 55% ex

Functions

253 113 exported

Complexity

6.5 avg / 97 max

Call network

253 nodes / 506 edges

Call graph

Open call graph →

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Lowest coverage

253 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
!.network exp	8	0%
%c%.network exp	43	0%
%eattr% exp	1	0%
%eattr%<- exp	1	0%
%nattr% exp	1	0%
%nattr%<- exp	1	0%

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Carter T. Butts

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Carter T. Butts

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (9)

Skye Bender-deMoll

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

Michał Bojanowski

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

Mark Handcock

Contributor · added in 1.8.1

Jeffrey Horner

Contributor · added in 1.10.2

David Hunter

Contributor · added in 1.3

Chad Klumb

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

Brendan Knapp

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

Pavel N. Krivitsky

Contributor · added in 1.17.0

Show 1 more contributors

Li Wang

Contributor · added in 1.14-377

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Mark S. Handcock

no longer listed · 0.5-4 to 1.2

with help from David Hunter

no longer listed · 0.5-4 to 1.2

and Mark S. Handcock

no longer listed · 1.3 to 1.7.2

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-08-20
Total releases: 35 / 21 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 7.3 KB / 2 files
Download size: 504 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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