Statnet R packages

Statnet software has been in continuous development since the early 2000s. All of our software is open source (GPL-3) and development is ongoing.

• Packages are developed and maintained by the Statnet Development Team on GitHub in a set of repositories under the GitHub statnet organization. The key repositories are public and have corresponding packages released on CRAN.

  We welcome bug reports, comments, suggestions or feature requests; please report these by filing a GitHub issue on the appropriate repository.

• Packages are published to the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN).

• Many packages have expository articles published in the Journal of Statistical Software.

• Most packages have a dedicated training workshop, with the materials posted online for self-learning (see the Workshops tab).

• If you use Statnet, please cite it. Information can be found on the Citing statnet tab.

The Statnet suite of packages

Organized by category, with links to the CRAN (or GitHub) resources.

Category	Package	First Published	Purpose
Static networks	sna *	2001	Descriptive analysis
	latentnet	2005	Statistical modeling
	network	2008	Network data management
	ergm	2008	Statistical modeling, simulation
	statnetWeb	2015	Shiny app for sna/network/ergm
	ergm.ego	2016	Shiny app for static net packages
	ergm.multi	2022	Statistical modeling
Dynamic networks	networkDynamic	2012	Network data management
	tergm	2013	Statistical modeling (DT), simulation
	ndtv	2013	Network movies and other temporal graphics
	relevent *	2013	Statistical modeling (CT)
	tsna	2015	Descriptive analysis
Valued tie networks	ergm	2008	Continous value tie modeling
(static)	ergm.count	2013	Count value tie modeling
	ergm.rank	2016	Rank value tie modeling
Extras	ergm.userterms	2011	Tools for custom model term building (GitHub only)

* These packages are maintained separately by Carter Butts, all other packages have public GitHub repositories.

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Related R packages

The CRAN ecosystem provides a platform for independently written extensions from the statnet packages. A partial list of packages that rely on the statnet foundation is below. A complete list can be found by checking the reverse dependencies of all of our packages, and the Shiny app cran-explorer can be used to visualize the dependency network.

• Bergm Bayesian analysis for ERGMs
  
• btergm Comparative assessment of ERGMs, TERGMs, and SAOMs
  
• EpiModel Mathematical Modeling of Infectious Disease Dynamics on Networks
  
• ergmito ERGMs for Small Networks
  
• ergMargins Process Analysis for ERGMs (e.g., mediation, moderation)
  
• fergm Estimation and Fit Assessment of Frailty ERGMs
  
• hergm Hierarchical analysis for ERGMs