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0.6.39

Create Compact Hash Digests of R Objects

429packages dependsuggested by 112
14.8Mdownloads / year
77.7%test coverage
13/13flavors OK

Overview

About
Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implementation of a function 'digest()' for the creation of hash digests of arbitrary R objects (using the 'md5', 'sha-1', 'sha-256', 'crc32', 'xxhash', 'murmurhash', 'spookyhash', 'blake3', 'crc32c', 'xxh3_64', and 'xxh3_128' algorithms) permitting easy comparison of R language objects, as well as functions such as 'hmac()' to create hash-based message authentication code. Please note that this package is not meant to be deployed for cryptographic purposes for which more comprehensive (and widely tested) libraries such as 'OpenSSL' should be used.

Install

Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64
Status changes
  • OK13 OK2026-08-25
  • ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-20
  • OK13 OK2026-08-05
  • NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
  • OK13 OK2026-05-22
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  • ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
  • OK13 OK2026-04-30
  • ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-28
  • OK14 OK2026-03-31
  • ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
  • OK14 OK2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.39
READMEYes · 282 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSNoCitation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown
Help pages
7
Examples that run
100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
86%
Documented parameters
92%
Return-value docs
86%
Help pages citing references
57%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)
How these are measured

Downloads

14.8M
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #47 · ~40.4K/day · ~1.2M/mo
Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.
1.1M30 days
3.5M90 days
14.8M1 year
Compare downloads with other packages →
Also on249.1K r2u184 autocran2.2M conda_forge2.1K bioconda23.1K c2d4u
How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/digest ↗Account: eddelbuettel
124Stars
50Forks
6Open issues
0Open PRs
0Releases
665Commits
41Commit identities
rcranr-packagehash-digest
665 commits · Last activity 2026-08-21 · +1.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.6.39.5, ahead of CRAN 0.6.39 (checked 2026-10-11)
Responsiveness
How these are sampled
PRs merged (all time)
88%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
0

Stars over time

2025-08-01 · 1182026-10-14 · 124
How these are measured
PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/digest on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)
GitHub Actions
Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-21

pkgdown site last built 2025-11-19

Coverage (2)
Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore
Show all practicesHide 1 practice
Lint, format, editor (1)
EditorConfig
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)
AI coding toolsBeta

An outside contributor's pull request to this repository was written with an AI coding tool.

From outside contributors
  • Claude Code
    Pull requests: 1 from outside contributors, first on 2026-08-11, 1 from forks
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)
R >= 3.3.0
Imports (1)
utils
LinkingTo (0)
none
Suggests (3)
tinytestsimplermarkdownrbenchmark
Enhances (0)
none
Dependency license breakdown →
Reverse dependencies
429direct
5,428indirect
Depends 6 · Imports 423 · LinkingTo 1
Suggested by 112
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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first
htmltoolsfutureplotlyshinyjsprogressrcovrrcmdcheckdownlitapereactablekableExtrayulab.utilsR.cachelintrhunspellrsconnectmetaforpandermaptilesphangornrngtoolsmiscToolsshinycssloadersgoogleAuthRrmslanguageserverIRkernellearnrR.rspggmapdownloaderpaws.commonswirlNMFaisdkaws.signaturemlr3miscaws.s3OpenMxgeigerfilehashtesseractmlr3pipelinesggimageeurostatblastulaMplusAutomationmetR

and 381 more dependents and 112 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (41)
Dirk Eddelbuettel ORCID iD
Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2003)
Dean Attali ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.34
Kendon Bell ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.21
Moritz Beller ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Henrik Bengtsson ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 2.5.0
Sebastian Campbell ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Winston Chang ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.32
Michael Chirico ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Bill Denney ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.26
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Sergey Fedorov ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Mario Frasca
Contributor · added in 2.13.2
Jim Hester ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.8
Kurt Hornik ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.17
Qiang Kou ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.10
Will Landau ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Michel Lang ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.10
Bryan Lewis
Contributor · added in 2.15.0
Antoine Lucas ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.2.1
Tim Mastny
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Harris McGehee
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Hannes Muehleisen ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.1
Chris Muir ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Duncan Murdoch
Contributor · added in 0.6.5
Radford Neal ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.19
Thierry Onkelinx ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.10
Carl Pearson ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.38
Aaron Peikert ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Dirk Schumacher
Contributor · added in 0.6.26
Dmitry Selivanov ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Viliam Simko
Contributor · added in 0.6.15
Murray Stokely
Contributor · added in 0.6.0
Ion Suruceanu ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.22
András Svraka ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Kevin Tappe
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Jarek Tuszynski
Contributor · added in 0.2.1
Simon Urbanek ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 2.5.0
Kevin Ushey ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Floris Vanderhaeghe ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Wush Wu ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.9
Matthew de Queljoe
Contributor · added in 0.6.22
Mark van der Loo ORCID iD
Contributor · added in 0.6.37
Listed in earlier versions (17)
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Mario Frasca.
no longer listed · 2.13.1 to 0.5.0
Bryan Lewis.
no longer listed · 2.13.2 to 0.5.1
Murray Stokely.
no longer listed · 2.15.0 to 0.5.2
Hannes Muehleisen.
no longer listed · 0.6.0
Duncan Murdoch.
no longer listed · 0.6.1 to 0.6.4
Jim Hester.
no longer listed · 0.6.5 to 0.6.7
Wush Wu.
no longer listed · 0.6.8
Thierry Onkelinx.
no longer listed · 0.6.9
Releases (67)

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Package metadata

First published
2003-11-29
Total releases
67 / 23 yrs
License
GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R
≥ 3.3.0
Download size
231 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("digest")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for digest version 0.6.39 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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