safer

0.2.2

Encrypt and Decrypt Strings, R Objects and Files

3packages depend

57.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Komala Sheshachala SrikanthFirst published 2017-04-214 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A consistent interface to encrypt and decrypt strings, R objects and files using symmetric and asymmetric key encryption.

Install

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

install.packages("safer", 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("talegari/safer")

Development version from talegari/safer. 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-safer

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-safer

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 48 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
0 OK · 14 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 507 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

57.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,558 · ~158/day · ~4.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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4.9K30 days

17.8K90 days

57.8K1 year

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Also on132 r2u

Repository

GitHub ↗ talegari/safer

24Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

13Commits

2Contributors

r-statsr-packageencryption

13 commits · Last activity 2026-03-23 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-09 · 222026-07-07 · 24

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/talegari/safer on 2026-07-31.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (4)

sodium base64enc base64url assertthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

HPZoneAPI onelogin Hmisc

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Komala Sheshachala Srikanth

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.2

Authors (1)

Komala Sheshachala Srikanth

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

KS Srikanth

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.2.1

Package Timeline

4 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
0.2.2Latest
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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
0.2.1
2018-07-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
2017-10-30 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2017-04-21
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-04-21
Total releases: 4 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 8.3 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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