lpanda: Local Political Actor Network Diachronic Analysis Tools

Provides functions to prepare, visualize, and analyse diachronic network data on local political actors, with a particular focus on the development of local party systems and identification of actor groups. Formalizes and automates a continuity diagram method that has been previously applied in research on Czech local politics, e.g. Bubenicek and Kubalek (2010, ISSN:1803-8220), Kubalek and Bubenicek (2012, ISSN:1803-8220), and Cmejrek, Bubenicek, and Copik (2010, ISBN:978-80-247-3061-5). The package also includes several example datasets derived from Czech municipal elections, compiled from official election results, field research, and previously published case studies on Czech local politics.

Version: 0.2.0
Depends: R (≥ 3.5)
Imports: igraph (≥ 2.1.0), dplyr, magrittr, RColorBrewer, scales
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), withr
Published: 2025-11-29
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.lpanda
Author: Vaclav Bubenicek ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph] (affiliation: Czech University of Life Sciences Prague (CZU))
Maintainer: Vaclav Bubenicek <bubenicek at pef.czu.cz>
BugReports: https://github.com/localpolitics/lpanda/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://localpolitics.github.io/lpanda/, https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=lpanda, https://github.com/localpolitics/lpanda
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: lpanda citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: lpanda results [issues need fixing before 2025-12-13]

Documentation:

Reference manual: lpanda.html , lpanda.pdf

Downloads:

Package source: lpanda_0.2.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: lpanda_0.1.1.zip, r-release: lpanda_0.1.1.zip, r-oldrel: lpanda_0.1.1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): lpanda_0.1.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): lpanda_0.1.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): lpanda_0.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): lpanda_0.2.0.tgz
Old sources: lpanda archive

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