fastnet: An R Package for Fast Simulation and Analysis of Large-Scale Social Networks

Journal of Statistical Software

关键词: social network analysis;    network simulation;    network metrics;    multi-core processing;    sampling;   

DOI  :  10.18637/jss.v096.i07

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Traditional tools and software for social network analysis are seldom scalable and/or fast. This paper provides an overview of an R package called fastnet, a tool for scaling and speeding up the simulation and analysis of large-scale social networks. fastnet uses multi-core processing and sub-graph sampling algorithms to achieve the desired scale-up and speed-up. Simple examples, usages, and comparisons of scale-up and speed-up as compared to other R packages, i.e., igraph and statnet, are presented.

【 授权许可】

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