R Observatory: Metrics for sship version 0.9.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

sship

0.9.0Package record

Tool for Secure Shipment of Content

0packages depend

5.4Kdownloads / year

70.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Are EdvardsenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Convenient tools for exchanging files securely from within R. By encrypting the content safe passage of files (shipment) can be provided by common but insecure carriers such as ftp and email. Based on asymmetric cryptography no management of shared secrets is needed to make a secure shipment as long as authentic public keys are available. Public keys used for secure shipments may also be obtained from external providers as part of the overall process. Transportation of files will require that relevant services such as ftp and email servers are available.

Changes in 0.9.0

new internal functions for standard symmetric encryption and decryption
minor improvements to the site documentation

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("sship", 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("Rapporteket/sship")

Development version from Rapporteket/sship. 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-sship

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-sship

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-sship

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-release-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 0.9.0

READMEYes · 388 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.9.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 9 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 100%6 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

5.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,865 · ~15/day · ~448/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49930 days

1.3K90 days

5.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on63 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

rapporteket/sship ↗Organization: Rapporteket

1Stars

0Forks

2Open issues

1Open PRs

15Releases

138Commits

5Commit identities

file-transferrdecryptionencryptionopensslsftp

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 138 commits · Last activity 2026-08-28 · Default branch at 1.0.0, ahead of CRAN 0.9.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 3
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-10-01 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rapporteket/sship 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

Governance and community (1)

PR template (inherited from rapporteket)

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Automation and maintenance (1)

Renovate

Lint, format, editor (3)

lintrLint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing sship adds 11 packages (9 with compiled code, 3.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

httr jsonlite openssl RCurl yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

httptest httpuv rmarkdown testthat withr

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)

Are Edvardsen

Author, Maintainer since 0.7.0 (2021)

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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
0.9.0Latest
record
2022-12-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
sym_dec, sym_enc
0.8.0
record
2022-08-05 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
sship_keygen

added 2 exports
keygen, pubkey_filter
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.7.4
record
2022-01-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
gh, rate_limit
0.7.3
record
2021-11-25 · diff ↗
0.7.1
record
2021-09-08 · diff ↗
0.7.0
record
2021-09-07
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-07
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 23 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("sship")

Format

Edvardsen, A. (2022). sship: Tool for Secure Shipment of Content (Version 0.9.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.sship

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 sship version 0.9.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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