R Observatory: Metrics for protolite version 2.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

protolite

2.4.0

Highly Optimized Protocol Buffer Serializers

5packages depend

111.9Kdownloads / year

68.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2016-04-2319 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Pure C++ implementations for reading and writing several common data formats based on Google protocol-buffers. Currently supports 'rexp.proto' for serialized R objects, 'geobuf.proto' for binary geojson, and 'mvt.proto' for vector tiles. This package uses the auto-generated C++ code by protobuf-compiler, hence the entire serialization is optimized at compile time. The 'RProtoBuf' package on the other hand uses the protobuf runtime library to provide a general- purpose toolkit for reading and writing arbitrary protocol-buffer data in R.

Install

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

install.packages("protolite", 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("jeroen/protolite")

Development version from jeroen/protolite. 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-protolite

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-protolite

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

Slowest check: 5.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.57

68.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 1 earlier snapshots

NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

111.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,481 · ~307/day · ~9.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.7K30 days

18.5K90 days

111.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jeroen/protolite

49Stars

9Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

9Releases

216Commits

2Contributors

216 commits · Last activity 2026-03-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-09-07 · 482026-07-07 · 49

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jeroen/protolite on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

Rcpp jsonlite

LinkingTo (1)

Rcpp

Suggests (4)

spelling curl testthat sf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

10indirect

geojson mapboxapi opencpu polmineR rgbif

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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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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Package metadata

First published: 2016-04-23
Total releases: 19 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 25 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("protolite")

Format

Ooms, J. (2026). protolite: Highly Optimized Protocol Buffer Serializers (Version 2.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.protolite

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for protolite version 2.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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