R Observatory: Metrics for RDieHarder version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RDieHarder

0.2.8Package record

R Interface to the 'DieHarder' RNG Test Suite

0packages depend

7.8Kdownloads / year

10.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

The 'RDieHarder' package provides an R interface to the 'DieHarder' suite of random number generators and tests that was developed by Robert G. Brown and David Bauer, extending earlier work by George Marsaglia and others. The 'DieHarder' library code is included.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("RDieHarder", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("eddelbuettel/rdieharder")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rdieharder. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rdieharder

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-RDieHarder

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-RDieHarder

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-16
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.8

READMEYes · 59 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

RDieHarder PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

7.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,404 · ~22/day · ~654/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

57030 days

1.5K90 days

7.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on391 r2u6 autocran132 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/rdieharder ↗Account: eddelbuettel

11Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

130Commits

1Commit identities

130 commits · Last activity 2026-09-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-06-18 · 92026-07-07 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rdieharder on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RDieHarder adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.5 (2007)

David Bauer

Author · added in 0.2.7

Robert G Brown

Author · added in 0.2.2

DieHarder Contributors

Contributor · added in 0.2.7

Listed in earlier versions (1)

David Bauer plus contributors to DieHarder

no longer listed · 0.2.2 to 0.2.6

Releases (17)

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0.2.8Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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0.2.0
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2018-12-21 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.1.4
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2018-03-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
dieharder.default, plot.dieharder, print.dieharder, summary.dieharder
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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2009-02-01 · diff ↗
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
0.1.0
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2008-09-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
dieharderTests
0.0.7
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2008-08-11 · diff ↗
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2008-07-28 · diff ↗
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
0.0.5
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2007-08-09
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2007-08-09
Total releases: 17 / 19 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.5.0
Download size: 551 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RDieHarder")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D., DieHarder Contributors, Bauer, D., & Brown, R. G. (2026). RDieHarder: R Interface to the 'DieHarder' RNG Test Suite (Version 0.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RDieHarder

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RDieHarder version 0.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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