https://github.com/matt-dray/kevinbacran
:bacon::1234: R package: the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. But for CRAN authors.
https://github.com/matt-dray/kevinbacran
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:bacon::1234: R package: the Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon. But for CRAN authors.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/matt-dray/kevinbacran
- Owner: matt-dray
- License: other
- Created: 2019-02-22T17:14:22.000Z (over 7 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2021-05-13T17:38:46.000Z (about 5 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-10-12T13:36:14.974Z (8 months ago)
- Topics: cran, graph, kevin-bacon, network, package, r, rstats, tidygraph
- Language: R
- Homepage: https://matt-dray.github.io/kevinbacran/
- Size: 5.18 MB
- Stars: 3
- Watchers: 0
- Forks: 1
- Open Issues: 2
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# {kevinbacran} 
[](https://www.tidyverse.org/lifecycle/#experimental)
[](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/02/27/hadley-number/)
_This R package comes with no guarantees whatsoever._
## What?
How separated (in a [graph-theory](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graph_theory) sense) are authors on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN), the home of R packages?
The aim is to provide some functions to approximate an implementation of [The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon), or [Erdos Numbers](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number) and [variants](https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/whats-your-erdos-bacon-sabbath-number).
# Read more
* [{kevinbacran} demo: what's your Hadley Number?](https://mattdray.shinyapps.io/hadley-number/) by [Matt Dray](https://twitter.com/mattdray): a shiny app to get and visualise the separation between CRAN authors and Hadley Wickham.
* ['What's your Hadley Number?'](https://www.rostrum.blog/2019/02/27/hadley-number/) by [Matt Dray](https://twitter.com/mattdray): a blogpost introducing the package and the Shiny app
* ['With added bacran'](https://nacnudus.github.io/duncangarmonsway/posts/2019-02-27-with-added-bacran/) by [Duncan Garmonsway](https://twitter.com/mattdray): a blogpost using the package to find out more about author separation on CRAN:
## How do?
```
# Install this development version with
remotes::install_github("matt-dray/kevinbacran")
# Load the package
library(kevinbacran)
# Get a tidygraph of authors from CRAN data
# (nodes) and packages (edges)
combo_graph <- kb_combos()
# Get subset of CRAN tidygraph composed of named authors
# plus the packages and authors that connect them
pair_graph <- kb_pair(
tidy_graph = combo_graph,
name_a = "Aaron Christ",
name_b = "Hadley Wickham"
)
# Print distance value between named authors
kb_distance(pair_graph = pair_graph)
# Plot network graph of authors and packages
# Named authors are terminals
kb_plot(pair_graph = pair_graph)
```
Note that the functions of {kevinbacran} are prefixed with `kb_*`.
A snapshot of the CRAN graph from late Feb 2019 is available from the package by calling `cran_graph`. This may be useful for testing purposes.
## References
This package makes use of several other excellent packages.
### {cranly}
Ioannis Kosmidis (2019). cranly: Package Directives and
Collaboration Networks in CRAN. R package version 0.3.
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=cranly
### {dplyr}
Hadley Wickham, Romain François, Lionel Henry and Kirill
Müller (2019). dplyr: A Grammar of Data Manipulation. R
package version 0.8.0.1.
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=dplyr
### {ggplot2}
H. Wickham. ggplot2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis.
Springer-Verlag New York, 2016.
### {ggraph}
Thomas Lin Pedersen (2018). ggraph: An Implementation of
Grammar of Graphics for Graphs and Networks. R package version
1.0.2. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggraph
### {purrr}
Lionel Henry and Hadley Wickham (2019). purrr: Functional
Programming Tools. R package version 0.3.0.
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=purrr
### {tidygraph}
Thomas Lin Pedersen (2019). tidygraph: A Tidy API for Graph
Manipulation. R package version 1.1.2.
https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidygraph
### {tidyr}
Hadley Wickham and Lionel Henry (2018). tidyr: Easily Tidy
Data with 'spread()' and 'gather()' Functions. R package
version 0.8.2. https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=tidyr