R Observatory: Metrics for secret version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

secret

1.1.0Package record

Share Sensitive Information in R Packages

0packages dependsuggested by 2

6.8Kdownloads / year

99.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Allow sharing sensitive information, for example passwords, 'API' keys, etc., in R packages, using public key cryptography.

Changes in 1.1.0

New functions get_github_key() and get_travis_key() to retrieve public keys from GitHub and Travis (#23).
add_travis_user() works correctly again, now it uses the Travis V2 API at https://api.travis-ci.com.
add_github_user() now works correctly when not the first key is added (#21, @jiwalker-usgs).
get_secret() is now faster, because it uses fingerprint matching instead of trying to decrypt every file (#19, @jiwalker-usgs).
list_secrets() now works if vault is not specified (#22, @AlexAxthelm).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("secret", 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("gaborcsardi/secret")

Development version from gaborcsardi/secret. 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-secret

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-secret

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-secret

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: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 23 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%6 never run
Exported functions with examples: 35%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 24%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Share Sensitive Information in R Packages

How these are measured

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,312 · ~19/day · ~569/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

33030 days

1.1K90 days

6.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on81 r2u5 autocran604 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

gaborcsardi/secret ↗Account: gaborcsardi

102Stars

16Forks

12Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

120Commits

5Commit identities

120 commits · Last activity 2020-05-07 · Default branch at 1.1.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.1.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 30
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-11-26 · 1012026-07-07 · 102

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gaborcsardi/secret on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing secret adds 7 packages (5 with compiled code, 2.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

assertthat openssl rprojroot curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr mockery testthat knitr rmarkdown withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

acledR REDCapExporter

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2017)

Andrie de Vries

Author

Releases (2)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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
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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
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-05-07
1.1.0Latest
record
2020-05-07 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_github_key, get_travis_key
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-04-25
check problems were not corrected in time
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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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2017-06-17
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-17
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 240 KB

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Format

Csárdi, G., & de Vries, A. (2020). secret: Share Sensitive Information in R Packages (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.secret

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for secret version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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