Package: mpaR
Title: Main Path Analysis for Citation and Directed Networks
Version: 0.4.0
Authors@R: person("Paulo H", "Resende", email = "paulo.resende@ttu.edu",
    role = c("aut", "cre"))
Description: Implements Main Path Analysis (MPA) as introduced by
        Hummon and Doreian (1989) <doi:10.1016/0378-8733(89)90017-8>.
        Given a directed acyclic graph (DAG) representing a citation or
        precedence network, the package computes traversal weights
        (SPC, SPLC, SPNP) for each edge and extracts the global, local,
        and key-route main paths. Also provides tools for DAG
        validation, node role classification (source/terminal/user),
        per-component path extraction for disconnected networks, and
        scale-free network testing. Accepts 'igraph' objects or
        edge-list data frames as input. Includes readers for 'Pajek'
        (.net) and 'Gephi' export (.gexf, .graphml) files.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: igraph (>= 1.3.0), methods, rlang (>= 1.0.0), tools, xml2
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0)
Config/testthat/edition: 3
URL: https://github.com/resendeph/mpaR
BugReports: https://github.com/resendeph/mpaR/issues
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-26 18:43:14 UTC; root
Author: Paulo H Resende [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Paulo H Resende <paulo.resende@ttu.edu>
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-06-26 10:00:02 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/mpaR
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 169d7a05139eb19eadea47e93354fa2b70e7e08b