R Observatory: Metrics for sanitizers version 0.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sanitizers

0.1.2Package record

C/C++ Source Code to Trigger Address and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizers

0packages depend

2.3Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Recent gcc and clang compiler versions provide functionality to test for memory violations and other undefined behaviour; this is often referred to as "Address Sanitizer" (or 'ASAN') and "Undefined Behaviour Sanitizer" ('UBSAN'). The Writing R Extension manual describes this in some detail in Section 4.3 title "Checking Memory Access". This feature has to be enabled in the corresponding binary, eg in R, which is somewhat involved as it also required a current compiler toolchain which is not yet widely available, or in the case of Windows, not available at all (via the common Rtools mechanism). As an alternative, pre-built Docker containers such as the Rocker container 'r-devel-san' or the multi-purpose container 'r-debug' can be used. This package then provides a means of testing the compiler setup as the known code failures provides in the sample code here should be detected correctly, whereas a default build of R will let the package pass. The code samples are based on the examples from the Address Sanitizer Wiki at https://github.com/google/sanitizers/wiki.

Changes in 0.1.2

Expanded README.md with additional badges, and updated URLs
Updated continuous integration multiple times
Switched to Authors@R
Added usage, arguments and value sections to manual page

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sanitizers", 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/sanitizers")

Development version from eddelbuettel/sanitizers. 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-sanitizers

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-sanitizers

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-sanitizers

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: 1.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-16
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.2

READMEYes · 286 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · mentions 0.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 1includes a package overview page
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,039 · ~6/day · ~194/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34330 days

64890 days

2.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on360 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

eddelbuettel/sanitizers ↗Account: eddelbuettel

13Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

32Commits

1Commit identities

32 commits · Last activity 2026-09-12

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

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

Commits over time

2026-07-19 · 302026-09-15 · 32

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/sanitizers on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2014)

Releases (3)

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0.1.2Latest
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2026-09-12 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.1
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2023-06-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pattern:^[[:alpha:]]+

added 3 exports
stackAddressSanitize, heapAddressSanitize, intOverflowSanitize
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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
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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
0.1.0
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2014-08-03
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-03
Total releases: 3 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 11 KB

Cite

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citation("sanitizers")

Format

Eddelbuettel, D. (2026). sanitizers: C/C++ Source Code to Trigger Address and Undefined Behaviour Sanitizers (Version 0.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sanitizers

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sanitizers version 0.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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