R Observatory: Metrics for sodium version 1.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sodium

1.4.0Package record

A Modern and Easy-to-Use Crypto Library

17packages dependsuggested by 12

923.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Bindings to 'libsodium' https://doc.libsodium.org/: a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more. Sodium uses curve25519, a state-of-the-art Diffie-Hellman function by Daniel Bernstein, which has become very popular after it was discovered that the NSA had backdoored Dual EC DRBG.

Changes in 1.4.0

Windows: use libsodium from Rtools if available

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sodium", 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("r-lib/sodium")

Development version from r-lib/sodium. 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-sodium

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-sodium

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: 2.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10
Examples that run: 100%10 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 10%
Help pages citing references: 80%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

923.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #585 · ~2.5K/day · ~77K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27.2K30 days

107.3K90 days

923.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on14.7K r2u14K conda_forge368 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/sodium ↗Organization: r-lib

74Stars

13Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

148Commits

9Commit identities

148 commits · Last activity 2026-05-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-19 · 702026-09-17 · 74

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/r-lib/sodium on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

28indirect

Imports 17

Suggested by 12

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Suggests, most downloaded first

openssl gargle bigrquery googleCloudStorageR pins shinyOAuth boxr ghclass mpathsenser trackdown aurora meetupr

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2015)

Releases (11)

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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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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-11
Total releases: 11 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 457 KB

Cite

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citation("sodium")

Format

Ooms, J. (2024). sodium: A Modern and Easy-to-Use Crypto Library (Version 1.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sodium

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for sodium version 1.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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