R Observatory: Metrics for cyphr version 1.1.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cyphr

1.1.7Package record

High Level Encryption Wrappers

0packages dependsuggested by 1

9.3Kdownloads / year

99.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rich FitzJohnCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Encryption wrappers, using low-level support from 'sodium' and 'openssl'. 'cyphr' tries to smooth over some pain points when using encryption within applications and data analysis by wrapping around differences in function names and arguments in different encryption providing packages. It also provides high-level wrappers for input/output functions for seamlessly adding encryption to existing analyses.

Install

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

install.packages("cyphr", 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("ropensci/cyphr")

Development version from ropensci/cyphr. 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-cyphr

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-cyphr

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: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.7

READMEYes · 1,134 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.1.7Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 9%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Introduction HTML
Data Encryption HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

9.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,873 · ~25/day · ~774/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

61130 days

1.7K90 days

9.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on939 r2u1.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci/cyphr ↗Organization: ropensci

98Stars

10Forks

6Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

198Commits

9Commit identities

encryptionsodiumopensslrrstatsr-packagepeer-reviewed

198 commits · Last activity 2025-02-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 92%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 62
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-26 · 952026-09-17 · 98

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci/cyphr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2019-03-25

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cyphr adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 1.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, sodium 457 KB, getPass 243 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

getPass openssl sodium

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

meetupr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Rich FitzJohn

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2019)

Jai Ranganathan

Contributor · added in 1.1.2

Releases (7)

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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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-03-09 · diff ↗
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2020-03-02 · diff ↗
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2020-01-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.0.1
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2019-03-23
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-03-23
Total releases: 7 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 905 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("cyphr")

Format

FitzJohn, R., & Ranganathan, J. (2025). cyphr: High Level Encryption Wrappers (Version 1.1.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.cyphr

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 cyphr version 1.1.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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