hexView

0.3-4

Viewing Binary Files

4packages depend

208.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul MurrellFirst published 2006-12-047 releasesCRAN page ↗

Functions to view files in raw binary form like in a hex editor. Additional functions to specify and read arbitrary binary formats.

Install

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

install.packages("hexView")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-hexview

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-hexView

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

sudo zypper install R-hexView

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

None

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

208.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,638 · ~572/day · ~17.4K/mo

4.9K30 days

19K90 days

208.7K1 year

Also on532 r2u15 autocran1.2K conda_forge18 c2d4u

Source & community

Repository stars, issues, and contributor activity are not tracked yet.

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 1.8.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

4direct

–indirect (not tracked)

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Code

1,707Lines of code

24Exported functions

Code & tests

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Line coverage

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Expression

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Tests / Examples

–

Functions

51 16 exported

Complexity

2.4 avg / 13 max

Call network

51 nodes / 44 edges

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Lowest coverage

Per-function coverage is not measured for this package yet.

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Paul Murrell

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Chao Bian

Contributor

Release timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics; R releases are shown for context.

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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3-4Latest
2019-03-13 · current release
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
0.3-2
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
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2006-12-06 · diff ↗
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Package metadata

First published: 2006-12-04
Total releases: 7 / 20 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet