hood2net: Create a Language Network from Neighborhoods of Words

Input a list of words and/or their phonological transcriptions and this package creates a language network based on their neighborhood structure. First, the phonological/orthographic neighbors for each item in the list are identified based on various definitions of a neighbor (e.g., edit-distance (substitution, deletion, or addition), substitution-only; distance size (1-edit or more); based on single characters or segments indicated by separators) and summarizes this information in an 'igraph' network object for subsequent analyses. For more details see Luce & Pisoni (1998) <doi:10.1097/00003446-199802000-00001> and Vitevitch (2008) <doi:10.1044/1092-4388(2008/030)>. Helper functions for extracting network metrics, neighbors, and other information from the language network are provided. This package is intended for psycholinguists interested in modeling language networks and word neighborhoods in various languages.

Version:	1.0.0
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	igraph, Rcpp, stringdist
LinkingTo:	Rcpp
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-07-17
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.hood2net
Author:	Cynthia Siew [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer:	Cynthia Siew <cynthia.siew at mailfence.com>
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://csqsiew.github.io/hood2net/
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	hood2net results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	hood2net.html , hood2net.pdf
Vignettes:	Examples and Case Studies (source, R code) A Quick Introduction to hood2net (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	hood2net_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: hood2net_1.0.0.zip, r-release: hood2net_1.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: hood2net_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): hood2net_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): hood2net_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): hood2net_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): hood2net_1.0.0.tgz

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