R Observatory: Metrics for agecrypt version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

agecrypt

0.1.1Package record

File Encryption with the 'age' Format

0packages depend

784downloads / year

82.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Pedro BaltazarCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An idiomatic R interface to the 'age' file encryption format (https://age-encryption.org/v1), backed by a vendored copy of the 'agec' C implementation (https://git.sr.ht/~min/agec). Encrypt and decrypt raw vectors, files, and strings for one or more X25519 recipients or with a passphrase, with optional ASCII armor. Cryptography is vendored and randomness is drawn from the operating system, so the package has no external library dependencies.

Changes in 0.1.1

Bug fixes

Fixed silent data loss at the 8 KiB output-buffer boundary. Encrypting a payload of about 8 KB (7992 to 8192 bytes) produced a truncated ciphertext that could not be decrypted, and decrypting a file whose final chunk was exactly 8 KiB (for example, a 73728-byte plaintext) returned truncated plaintext. Both reported success. Ciphertexts of about 8 KB that were created with 0.1.0 may be unrecoverable; decrypt-and-compare any you rely on.
Error messages now describe the failure that happened. Previously a failure could report the message of an earlier, unrelated operation.

Security

Identity files are read, parsed, and scrubbed in native code. Previously the secret key lines passed through readLines(), which kept them in R's global string cache for the rest of the session.

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The vendored 'agec' library is updated to version 1.0.0. Headers are now parsed more strictly, as the age specification requires: stanzas with malformed bodies are rejected, including those of unrecognized types.
The payload nonce counter now spans all 11 bytes that the age specification defines, and a counter overflow is reported instead of reusing a nonce. No reachable payload size is affected.
The native code no longer leaks internal buffers, or leaves a decoded secret on the stack, when an operation fails part way.

Other changes

agecrypt now requires R 3.5.0 or later.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("agecrypt", 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("pedrobtz/agecrypt")

Development version from pedrobtz/agecrypt. 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-agecrypt

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-agecrypt

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-agecrypt

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: 2.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK8 OK2026-08-06

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 877 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

784

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,919 · ~2/day · ~65/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31130 days

78490 days

7841 year

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Also on42 r2u38 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

pedrobtz/agecrypt ↗Account: pedrobtz

0Stars

0Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

38Commits

3Commit identities

38 commits · Last activity 2026-09-30

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Releases over time

2026-08-05 · 02026-09-19 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/pedrobtz/agecrypt on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-30, before release 0.1.1 (2026-10-21)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

Air

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-26
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: CLAUDE.md
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 1 by its own account · at least 15 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: .agents, AGENTS.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 5.511 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Fable 5.13 commits · Sep 2026
Claude Opus 51 commit · Sep 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

askpass openssl testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Pedro Baltazar

agec authors

Contributor, Copyright holder

Authors of the vendored 'agec' C implementation, https://git.sr.ht/~min/agec

Releases (2)

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0.1.1Latest
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2026-10-21 · current release · diff ↗ ·
listed once in CRAN's queue
Seen in one reading of CRAN's incoming queue, at 2026-10-21 22:56 UTC, so it stayed less than the time between readings.
0.1.0
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first seen 2026-08-05
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 26 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-08-05
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 472 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("agecrypt")

Format

Baltazar, P., & agec authors. (2026). agecrypt: File Encryption with the 'age' Format (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.agecrypt

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for agecrypt version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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