R Observatory: Metrics for b32 version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

b32

0.1.0Package record

Fast and Vectorized Base32 Encoding

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Josiah ParryCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗

Fast, dependency free, and vectorized base32 encoding and decoding. 'b32' supports the Crockford, Z, RFC 4648 lower, hex, and lower hex alphabets.

Install

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

install.packages("b32", 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("extendr/b32")

Development version from extendr/b32. 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-b32

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-b32

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-29
OK13 OK2026-05-02

Show 4 earlier changesHide 4 earlier changes

NOTE11 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-16
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 116 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

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: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,520 · ~5/day · ~167/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

29730 days

66390 days

2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on255 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

extendr/b32 ↗Organization: extendr

4Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

5Commits

1Commit identities

base32extendrrstatsrust

5 commits · Last activity 2026-01-19 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-01-11 · 32026-07-07 · 4

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/extendr/b32 on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.qmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-19, before release 0.1.0 (2026-01-23)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

VS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing b32 adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

blob testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Josiah Parry

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2026)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
record
2026-01-23 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-23
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Download size: 553 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("b32")

Format

Parry, J. (2026). b32: Fast and Vectorized Base32 Encoding (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.b32

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 b32 version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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