R Observatory: Metrics for RcppMsgPack version 0.2.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RcppMsgPack

0.2.5Package record

'MsgPack' C++ Header Files and Interface Functions for R

2packages dependsuggested by 1

4.1Kdownloads / year

63.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

'MsgPack' header files are provided for use by R packages, along with the ability to access, create and alter 'MsgPack' objects directly from R. 'MsgPack' is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like 'JSON' but it is faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require only one extra byte in addition to the strings themselves. This package provides headers from the 'msgpack-c' implementation for C and C++(11) for use by R, particularly 'Rcpp'. The included 'msgpack-c' headers are licensed under the Boost Software License (Version 1.0); the code added by this package as well the R integration are licensed under the GPL (>= 2). See the files 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS' for a full list of copyright holders and contributors to 'msgpack-c'.

Changes in 0.2.5

Explicitly include header "type_traints.h" to appease clang++-23
Standard maintenance updating continuous integration, adding minor helper script, and updating README.md

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("RcppMsgPack", 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/rcppmsgpack")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack. 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-rcppmsgpack

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-RcppMsgPack

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-RcppMsgPack

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: 4.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25

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NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-04-22
ERROR10 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.5

READMEYes · 457 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 0.2.5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites an R Journal article

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 73%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 82%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Using RcppMsgPack HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,526 · ~11/day · ~343/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

53830 days

1.5K90 days

4.1K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on399 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack ↗Account: eddelbuettel

22Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

103Commits

2Commit identities

msgpackmsgpack-headerscranr-packagemessagepack

103 commits · Last activity 2026-08-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 94%
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 · 202026-07-07 · 22

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/rcppmsgpack on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RcppMsgPack adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 16 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown microbenchmark

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RTD livelink

Suggests, most downloaded first

RcppRedis

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2017)

MsgPack Authors

Author · added in 0.2.4

Authors of included MsgPack

Travers Ching

Author · added in 0.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

contributors of MsgPack

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.2.3

the authors

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.2.3

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.5Latest
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2026-08-19 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.4
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2025-01-19 · diff ↗
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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
0.2.3
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2018-11-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
msgpack_write, msgpackWrite, msgpack_read, msgpackRead
0.2.2
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2018-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.1
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2018-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
msgpack_timestamp_encode, msgpackTimestampEncode, msgpack_timestamp_decode, msgpackTimestampDecode
0.2.0
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2017-09-07 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 12 exports
msgpack_format, msgpack_map, msgpack_pack, msgpack_simplify, msgpack_unpack, msgpackFormat, msgpackMap, msgpackPack, msgpackSimplify, msgpackUnpack, arrayEx, enumEx
0.1.1
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2017-06-12

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R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-12
Total releases: 7 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Copyright: See inst/COPYRIGHTS in the package
Download size: 958 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RcppMsgPack")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 RcppMsgPack version 0.2.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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