DSLite

1.4.1

'DataSHIELD' Implementation on Local Datasets

3packages depend

8.4Kdownloads / year

58.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yannick MarconFirst published 2020-04-106 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

'DataSHIELD' is an infrastructure and series of R packages that enables the remote and 'non-disclosive' analysis of sensitive research data. This 'DataSHIELD Interface' implementation is for analyzing datasets living in the current R session. The purpose of this is primarily for lightweight 'DataSHIELD' analysis package development.

Install

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

install.packages("DSLite", 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("datashield/DSLite")

Development version from datashield/DSLite. 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-dslite

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# 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-DSLite

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ datashield/dslite

4Stars

3Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

113Commits

1Contributors

License LGPL-2.1 · 113 commits · Last activity 2025-11-06

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/datashield/dslite on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (5)

R >= 3.5.0DSImethodsR6 rly

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

resourcer knitr testthat rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

dsBaseClient dsTidyverse dsTidyverseClient

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Yannick Marcon

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yannick Marcon

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

6 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.1Latest
2025-07-25 · current release · diff ↗
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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
1.4.0
2022-10-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.0
2021-06-23 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
2021-03-16 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2020-05-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0.0
2020-04-10
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-04-10
Total releases: 6 / 6 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.1)
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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