R Observatory: Metrics for vaultr version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vaultr

1.2.0Package record

Vault Client for Secrets and Sensitive Data

0packages depend

8.9Kdownloads / year

29.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rich FitzJohnCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides an interface to a 'HashiCorp' vault server over its http API (typically these are self-hosted; see https://www.vaultproject.io). This allows for secure storage and retrieval of secrets over a network, such as tokens, passwords and certificates. Authentication with vault is supported through several backends including user name/password and authentication via 'GitHub'.

Install

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

install.packages("vaultr", 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("vimc/vaultr")

Development version from vimc/vaultr. 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-vaultr

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-vaultr

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-vaultr

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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-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 1.2.0

READMEYes · 175 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 1.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 21includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%20 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 33%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

vaultr HTML
Using vaultr in packages HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,753 · ~24/day · ~740/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

47430 days

1.4K90 days

8.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on64 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

vimc/vaultr ↗Organization: vimc

26Stars

9Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

433Commits

7Commit identities

433 commits · Last activity 2023-11-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 91%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 46
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-03-10 · 252026-07-07 · 26

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/vimc/vaultr on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-11-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing vaultr adds 10 packages (7 with compiled code, 3.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

R6 getPass httr jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr mockery processx 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 (4)

Rich FitzJohn

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2019)

Robert Ashton

Author

Wes Hinsley

Author

Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine

Copyright holder

Releases (4)

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
1.2.0Latest
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2023-11-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
vault_test_server_install
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.1
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2022-08-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.0
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2021-06-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.2
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2019-05-16
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-16
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 121 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("vaultr")

Format

FitzJohn, R., Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, Ashton, R., & Hinsley, W. (2023). vaultr: Vault Client for Secrets and Sensitive Data (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vaultr

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 vaultr version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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