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license: MIT
title: 'netkit: Network Topology, Diffusion and Robustness Analysis'
version: 0.1.2
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.netkit
abstract: Tools for analyzing and visualizing networks, built on 'igraph' and returning
  'ggplot2' objects rather than drawing them, so that diagnostics can be composed
  and customized. Summarizes global topology and per-node centrality, identifies hubs,
  bottlenecks and community structure, and classifies nodes into connectivity roles
  following Guimera and Amaral (2005) <https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03288>. Extracts
  interpretable subnetworks around a set of nodes, including approximate Steiner trees
  after Kou, Markowsky and Berman (1981) <https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00288961>. Propagates
  influence from seed nodes using Laplacian smoothing, heat-kernel and random-walk-with-restart
  diffusion, with degree-matched permutation nulls, and simulates network robustness
  under progressive node removal. Observed metrics, including the small-world coefficient,
  can be tested against degree-preserving random ensembles for statistical significance.
  Edge weights are supported throughout, with an explicit declaration of whether a
  weight means strength or distance. Matrix operations use sparse representations
  throughout so that the methods remain usable on large graphs.
authors:
- family-names: Gallinat
  given-names: Alex
  email: alex.gaoc@gmail.com
preferred-citation:
  type: manual
  title: 'netkit: Network Topology, Diffusion and Robustness Analysis'
  authors:
  - family-names: Gallinat
    given-names: Alex
    email: alex.gaoc@gmail.com
  year: '2026'
  notes: R package version 0.1.2
  url: https://agallinat.github.io/netkit
repository: https://agallinat.r-universe.dev
repository-code: https://github.com/agallinat/netkit
commit: 2b2e05a4ee78834c9e79e3b3970466feb742b2f4
url: https://agallinat.github.io/netkit
date-released: '2026-10-16'
contact:
- family-names: Gallinat
  given-names: Alex
  email: alex.gaoc@gmail.com
keywords:
- network analysis
- graph theory
- igraph
- centrality
- hubs
- bottlenecks
- community detection
- modularity
- network diffusion
- random walk with restart
- heat kernel
- network propagation
- null models
- small-world
- network robustness
- network visualization