R Observatory: Metrics for random version 0.2.7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

random

0.2.7Package record

True Random Numbers using RANDOM.ORG

2packages depend

13.9Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

The true random number service provided by the RANDOM.ORG website created by Mads Haahr samples atmospheric noise via radio tuned to an unused broadcasting frequency together with a skew correction algorithm due to John von Neumann. More background is available in the included vignette based on an essay by Mads Haahr. In its current form, the package offers functions to retrieve random integers, randomized sequences and random strings.

Install

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

install.packages("random", 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("eddelbuettel/random")

Development version from eddelbuettel/random. 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-random

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-random

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-random

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-05
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-05-12
WARNING11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-05-11
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.7

READMEYes · 98 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

13.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,097 · ~38/day · ~1.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

80430 days

2.2K90 days

13.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on145 r2u3 autocran154 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/random ↗Account: eddelbuettel

10Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

61Commits

2Commit identities

cranrr-packagerandom-number-generators

61 commits · Last activity 2026-08-30

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Commits over time

2026-09-06 · 612026-09-15 · 61

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/random on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing random adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 714 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: curl 714 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.8.0

Imports (2)

curlutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

qsub riceware

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2006)

Releases (10)

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Package metadata

First published: 2006-08-19
Total releases: 10 / 20 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.8.0
Download size: 265 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("random")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D. (2026). random: True Random Numbers using RANDOM.ORG (Version 0.2.7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.random

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for random version 0.2.7 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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