BlockmodelingGUI

Sister project: A GUI for Generalised Blockmodeling

Short Description

This R package provides some useful tools for Offering an accessible GUI for generalised blockmodeling of single-relation, one-mode networks. The user can execute blockmodeling without having to write a line code by using the app's visual helps. Moreover, there are several ways to visualisations networks and their partitions. Finally, the results can be exported as if they were produced by writing code.

The app’s many option and east of use make blockmodeling and basic network analysis in R easier to execute and understand than via command line. In fact, the GUI requires no coding experience, allowing researchers and laymen to access visualisations and information about blockmodeling in a simple way. The breadth of network analyses than can be executed is arguably not too extended, but the focus when it comes to computation is here on blockmodeling. Thus making, the app could find an apt use in a graduate class in quantitative methods in social science as well.

Installation

To install the GUI directly from R, run the following code:

1. Check if you need to install the devtools package if(!require(devtools))install.packages('devtools')
2. Install the package from this repository devtools::install_github('FATelarico/BlockmodelingGUI')

Acknowledgements

The development of this package is financially supported by the Slovenian Research Agency (www.arrs.gov.si) within the research project J5-2557 (Comparison and evaluation of different approaches to blockmodeling dynamic networks by simulations with application to Slovenian co-authorship networks).

Functions in detail

The app supports different types of inputs:

	File type	Extension	R function	Package
Adjacency matrix	plain/text	.txt; .csv; .tab	read.delim()	base
Edge list	plain/text	.txt; .csv; .tab	read.delim()	base
Incidence matrix	plain/text	.txt; .csv; .tab	read.delim()	base
Pajek matrix	Pajek	.mat	loadmatrix()	blockmodelling
Pajek network	Pajek	.net	loadmatrix()	blockmodelling

Advanced inputs

	File type	Extension	R function	Package
Clustering result	R	.RDS	readRDS()	base
Preset block-model	R	.RDS; .RData	readRDS(); load()	base

RCMD Check

==> devtools::check()

i Updating BlockmodelingGUI documentation

i Loading BlockmodelingGUI

── Checking ───────────────────────────────────────────── BlockmodelingGUI ──

Setting env vars:

• R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_USE_ASPELL: TRUE

• R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING_REMOTE : FALSE

• R_CHECK_CRAN_INCOMING : FALSE

• R_CHECK_FORCE_SUGGESTS : FALSE

── R CMD check ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────

─ using log directory ‘/tmp/RtmpaU8PvL/BlockmodelingGUI.Rcheck’

─ using R version 4.2.2 Patched (2022-11-10 r83330)

─ using platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

─ using session charset: UTF-8

─ using options ‘--no-manual --as-cran’

✔ checking for file ‘BlockmodelingGUI/DESCRIPTION’

─ this is package ‘BlockmodelingGUI’ version ‘1.8.4’

─ package encoding: UTF-8

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── R CMD check results ────────────────────────── BlockmodelingGUI 1.8.4 ────

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