R Observatory: Metrics for aws.signature version 0.6.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aws.signature

0.6.2Package record

Amazon Web Services Request Signatures

9packages dependsuggested by 4

494.7Kdownloads / year

58.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gonzalo DiazCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Generates version 2 and version 4 request signatures for Amazon Web Services ('AWS') https://aws.amazon.com/ Application Programming Interfaces ('APIs') and provides a mechanism for retrieving credentials from environment variables, 'AWS' credentials files, and 'EC2' instance metadata. For use on 'EC2' instances, users will need to install the suggested package 'aws.ec2metadata' https://cran.r-project.org/package=aws.ec2metadata.

Changes in 0.6.2

New package maintainer, changes to the aws.signature-package.R function, and updated roxygen2 version

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("aws.signature", 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("cloudyr/aws.signature")

Development version from cloudyr/aws.signature. 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-aws.signature

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-aws.signature

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-aws.signature

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: 1.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-11
NOTE7 OK, 6 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR7 OK, 5 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 0.6.2

READMEYes · 660 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.2Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 40%2 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 63%
Documented parameters: 83%
Return-value docs: 38%
Help pages citing references: 67%

How these are measured

Downloads

494.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #880 · ~1.4K/day · ~41.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

14.5K30 days

48.9K90 days

494.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.8K r2u18 autocran18.6K conda_forge146 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

cloudyr/aws.signature ↗Organization: cloudyr

31Stars

28Forks

18Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

227Commits

14Commit identities

cloudyrrawsiamrequest-signatures

227 commits · Last activity 2026-07-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 59%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 48
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 41

Stars over time

2023-08-16 · 302026-07-07 · 31

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cloudyr/aws.signature on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Governance and community (3)

Contributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aws.signature adds 4 packages (4 with compiled code, 1.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB, digest 231 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

digest base64enc jsonlite curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

devtools testthat aws.ec2metadata

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

8indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 4

Show all 13 packagesHide all 13 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

aws.s3 aws.iam aws.ecx aws.kms aws.lambda aws.translate aws.polly aws.transcribe text2speech

Suggests, most downloaded first

gargle framework chatLLM s3

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Gonzalo Diaz

Maintainer since 0.6.2 (2026), Author · added in 0.6.2

Thomas J. Leeper

Author

Jonathan Stott

Author · added in 0.5.0

Mark Douthwaite

Contributor · added in 0.6.2

Luke Dyer

Contributor · added in 0.6.2

Jason Gofford

Contributor · added in 0.6.2

Mike Kaminsky

Contributor · added in 0.6.0

Previously maintained by Jonathan Stott (0.5.0 to 0.6.0) and Thomas J. Leeper (0.2.0 to 0.4.4).

Releases (13)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.6.2Latest
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2026-07-21 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
assume_role_with_web_identity
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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
0.6.0
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2020-06-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.2
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2019-08-08 · diff ↗
0.5.0
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2019-05-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.4.4
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2018-07-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.1
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2018-04-09 · diff ↗
0.3.5
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2017-07-01 · diff ↗

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0.3.2
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2017-06-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
default_credentials_file, locate_credentials
0.2.9
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2017-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.6
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2016-12-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
read_credentials, use_credentials
0.2.5
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2016-08-09 · diff ↗
0.2.2
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2016-05-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
signature_v2_auth
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.2.0
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2015-12-21
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-21
Total releases: 13 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 29 KB

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for aws.signature version 0.6.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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