R Observatory: Metrics for diffpriv version 0.4.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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diffpriv

0.4.2

Easy Differential Privacy

1packages depend

3.5Kdownloads / year

97.8%test coverage

0/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Benjamin RubinsteinFirst published 2017-07-181 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An implementation of major general-purpose mechanisms for privatizing statistics, models, and machine learners, within the framework of differential privacy of Dwork et al. (2006) doi:10.1007/11681878_14. Example mechanisms include the Laplace mechanism for releasing numeric aggregates, and the exponential mechanism for releasing set elements. A sensitivity sampler (Rubinstein & Alda, 2017) arXiv:1706.02562 permits sampling target non-private function sensitivity; combined with the generic mechanisms, it permits turn-key privatization of arbitrary programs.

Install

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

install.packages("diffpriv", 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("brubinstein/diffpriv")

Development version from brubinstein/diffpriv. 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-diffpriv

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-diffpriv

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-diffpriv

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
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NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64
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NOTE r-release-macos-arm64
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NOTE r-release-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 2.1 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

97.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
0 OK · 13 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
0 OK · 12 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 645 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 55%
References docs: 59%

Downloads

3.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,280 · ~10/day · ~295/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ brubinstein/diffpriv

69Stars

15Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

67Commits

2Contributors

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67 commits · Last activity 2022-07-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-03-29 · 682026-07-07 · 69

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/brubinstein/diffpriv on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (3)

gslmethodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

randomNames testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

GRANDpriv

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Benjamin Rubinstein

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Benjamin Rubinstein

Author, Maintainer

Francesco Aldà

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.2Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2017-07-18
Total releases: 1 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 519 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("diffpriv")

Format

Rubinstein, B., & Aldà, F. (2017). diffpriv: Easy Differential Privacy (Version 0.4.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.diffpriv

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for diffpriv version 0.4.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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