R Observatory: Metrics for secretbase version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

secretbase

1.3.1Package record

Cryptographic Hash Functions and Data Encoding

9packages dependsuggested by 1

204.5Kdownloads / year

98.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Charlie GaoCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Fast and memory-efficient streaming hash functions, binary/text encoding and serialization. Hashes strings and raw vectors directly. Stream hashes files which can be larger than memory, as well as in-memory objects through R's serialization mechanism. Implements the SHA-256, SHA-3 and 'Keccak' cryptographic hash functions, SHAKE256 extendable-output function (XOF), 'SipHash' pseudo-random function, base64 (including the URL-safe variant) and base58 encoding, 'CBOR' and 'JSON' serialization.

Changes in 1.3.1

Fixes possible compilation failures under strict C standards compliance by using the __asm__ keyword in place of asm (thanks @MichaelChirico, #41).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("secretbase", 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("shikokuchuo/secretbase")

Development version from shikokuchuo/secretbase. 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-secretbase

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-secretbase

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-secretbase

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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-04-04
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-28
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3.1

READMEYes · 731 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 14 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%13 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 64%

How these are measured

Downloads

204.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #913 · ~560/day · ~17K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

14.4K30 days

46K90 days

204.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.5K r2u4 autocran9.1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

shikokuchuo/secretbase ↗Account: shikokuchuo

19Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

18Releases

186Commits

2Commit identities

cryptographic-hash-functionsrextendable-output-functionssha3shake256sha256siphashkeccak

186 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.3.1 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 3 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-23 · 122026-07-07 · 19

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shikokuchuo/secretbase on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-25

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirRStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-12-02
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

9indirect

Imports 9

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

targets tarchetypes dodgr ichimoku finbif jagstargets autosync syncdr cookie

Suggests, most downloaded first

mirai

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Charlie Gao

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Hibiki AI Limited

Copyright holder

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.1.0

Red Hat, Inc.

Copyright holder · added in 1.2.2

SipHash code from c-siphash

The Mbed TLS Contributors

Copyright holder · added in 1.2.2

SHA-3, SHA-256 and base64 code from Mbed TLS

Luke Dashjr

Copyright holder · added in 1.2.2

Base58 code from libbase58

Releases (19)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

1.3.1Latest
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2026-09-25 · current release · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2026-06-12 · diff ↗
1.2.2
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2026-05-01 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.1
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2026-03-30 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2026-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
jsondec, jsonenc
1.1.1
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2026-01-15 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2026-01-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
base58dec, base58enc, cbordec, cborenc
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.5
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2025-03-04 · diff ↗
1.0.4
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2025-01-16 · diff ↗
1.0.3
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2024-10-02 · diff ↗
1.0.2
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2024-09-09 · diff ↗
1.0.1
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2024-07-22 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2024-06-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
base64dec, base64enc
0.5.0
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2024-04-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
keccak, shake256

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R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.4.0
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2024-04-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
siphash13
0.3.0.1
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2024-03-01 · diff ↗
0.3.0
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2024-02-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
sha3file

added 1 export
sha256
0.2.0
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2024-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
sha3file
0.1.0
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2024-01-22
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-01-22
Total releases: 19 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 3) in 1.0.5
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 43 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("secretbase")

Format

Gao, C., Hibiki AI Limited, Posit Software, PBC, Red Hat, Inc., The Mbed TLS Contributors, & Dashjr, L. (2026). secretbase: Cryptographic Hash Functions and Data Encoding (Version 1.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.secretbase

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 secretbase version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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