R Observatory: Metrics for safer version 0.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

safer

0.2.3Package record

Encrypt and Decrypt Strings, R Objects and Files

2packages dependsuggested by 1

63.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Komala Sheshachala SrikanthCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A consistent interface to encrypt and decrypt strings, R objects and files using symmetric and asymmetric key encryption.

Changes in 0.2.3

Add read_keypair to support reading Ed25519 keys from files.
openssl added to Suggests.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("safer", 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("talegari/safer")

Development version from talegari/safer. 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-safer

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-safer

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

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 49 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK12 OK2026-04-25

Show 1 earlier changeHide 1 earlier change

NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.3

READMEYes · 507 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.3Citation fileNo

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

63.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,376 · ~175/day · ~5.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.7K30 days

20K90 days

63.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on110 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

talegari/safer ↗Account: talegari

24Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

16Commits

2Commit identities

r-statsr-packageencryption

16 commits · Last activity 2026-08-30 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 961
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-06-09 · 222026-07-07 · 24

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/talegari/safer on 2026-10-11.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-30

CRAN release process (1)

CRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing safer adds 5 packages (4 with compiled code, 522 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: sodium 457 KB, backports 29 KB, base64url 15 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

sodium base64enc base64url assertthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

openssl testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

HPZoneAPI onelogin

Suggests, most downloaded first

Hmisc

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Komala Sheshachala Srikanth

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.2

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

KS Srikanth

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.1

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

0.2.3Latest
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2026-08-29 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
read_keypair
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.2
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2018-07-24 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2018-07-24 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
record
2017-10-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
keypair
0.1.0
record
2017-04-21
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-21
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 9.3 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("safer")

Format

Srikanth, K. S. (2026). safer: Encrypt and Decrypt Strings, R Objects and Files (Version 0.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.safer

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

Cite the R Observatory

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for safer version 0.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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