‘network’ is part of the Statnet suite of packages. If you are using the ‘network’ package for research that will be published, we request that you acknowledge this by citing the following. For BibTeX format, use toBibtex(citation("network")).

Butts C (2015). network: Classes for Relational Data. The Statnet Project (http://www.statnet.org). R package version 1.13.0.1, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=network.

Butts C (2008). “network: a Package for Managing Relational Data in R.” Journal of Statistical Software, 24(2). doi:10.18637/jss.v024.i02.

Some additional information regarding the C-level network API can be found in the README file within the network.api subdirectory under the package "inst" directory -- check your installed library tree. We have invested a lot of time and effort in creating the Statnet suite of packages for use by other researchers. Please cite it in all papers where it is used. The package ‘network’ is distributed under the terms of the license GPL (>= 2).

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    author = {Carter T. Butts},
    title = {network: Classes for Relational Data},
    organization = {The Statnet Project
      (\url{http://www.statnet.org})},
    year = {2015},
    note = {R package version 1.13.0.1},
    url = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=network},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {network: a Package for Managing Relational Data in R.},
    author = {Carter T. Butts},
    journal = {Journal of Statistical Software},
    year = {2008},
    volume = {24},
    number = {2},
    doi = {10.18637/jss.v024.i02},
  }