RcppMsgPack

0.2.4

'MsgPack' C++ Header Files and Interface Functions for R

3packages depend

3.6Kdownloads / year

63.8%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Dirk EddelbuettelFirst published 2017-06-126 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

'MsgPack' header files are provided for use by R packages, along with the ability to access, create and alter 'MsgPack' objects directly from R. 'MsgPack' is an efficient binary serialization format. It lets you exchange data among multiple languages like 'JSON' but it is faster and smaller. Small integers are encoded into a single byte, and typical short strings require only one extra byte in addition to the strings themselves. This package provides headers from the 'msgpack-c' implementation for C and C++(11) for use by R, particularly 'Rcpp'. The included 'msgpack-c' headers are licensed under the Boost Software License (Version 1.0); the code added by this package as well the R integration are licensed under the GPL (>= 2). See the files 'COPYRIGHTS' and 'AUTHORS' for a full list of copyright holders and contributors to 'msgpack-c'.

Install

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

install.packages("RcppMsgPack", 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("eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack")

Development version from eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack. 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-rcppmsgpack

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

# 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-RcppMsgPack

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-RcppMsgPack

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.56

63.8%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 429 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 82%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

3.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,472 · ~10/day · ~300/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack

22Stars

2Forks

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0Open PRs

0Releases

98Commits

2Contributors

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98 commits · Last activity 2026-01-27 · +4.8% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/eddelbuettel/rcppmsgpack on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (1)

Rcpp

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp BH

Suggests (3)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

RTD livelink RcppRedis

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.4

Authors (3)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.4

MsgPack Authors

Author · added in 0.2.4

Travers Ching

Author · added in 0.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (2)

contributors of MsgPack

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.2.3

Dirk Eddelbuettel; the authors

no longer listed · 0.1.1 to 0.2.3

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.3
2018-11-18 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2018-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.1
2018-01-16 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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0.1.1
2017-06-12
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-06-12
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 957 KB
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