backbone: Extracts the Backbone from Networks

An implementation of methods for extracting a sparse unweighted network (i.e. a backbone) from an unweighted network (e.g., Hamann et al., 2016 <doi:10.1007/s13278-016-0332-2>), a weighted network (e.g., Serrano et al., 2009 <doi:10.1073/pnas.0808904106>), or a weighted projection (e.g., Neal et al., 2021 <doi:10.1038/s41598-021-03238-3>).

Version: 3.0.2
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: igraph, Matrix, methods, stats, Rcpp, utils
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, tinytest
Published: 2025-10-06
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.backbone
Author: Zachary Neal ORCID iD [aut, cre], Rachel Domagalski [ctb], Bruce Sagan [ctb], Karl Godard [ctb]
Maintainer: Zachary Neal <zpneal at msu.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/zpneal/backbone/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://www.zacharyneal.com/backbone, https://github.com/zpneal/backbone
NeedsCompilation: yes
Citation: backbone citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: GraphicalModels, NetworkAnalysis
CRAN checks: backbone results

Documentation:

Reference manual: backbone.html , backbone.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to Backbone (source, R code)
Empirical Example of Backbone Extraction: The 108^th^ U.S. Senate (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: backbone_3.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: backbone_3.0.2.zip, r-release: backbone_3.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: backbone_3.0.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): backbone_3.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): backbone_3.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): backbone_3.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): backbone_3.0.2.tgz
Old sources: backbone archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports: GeneTonic
Reverse suggests: incidentally

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