wand

0.5.0

Retrieve 'Magic' Attributes from Files and Directories

1packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

62.2%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Bob RudisFirst published 2016-08-162 releasesCRAN page ↗GitLab ↗

'MIME' types are shorthand descriptors for file contents and can be determined from "magic" bytes in file headers, file contents or intuited from file extensions. Tools are provided to perform curated "magic" tests as well as mapping 'MIME' types from a database of over 1,500 extension mappings.

Install

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

install.packages("wand", 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("hrbrmstr/wand")

Development version from hrbrmstr/wand. 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-wand

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-wand

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-wand

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 46 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

62.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-11
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,336 · ~7/day · ~198/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16230 days

57490 days

2.4K1 year

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Repository

GitLab ↗ hrbrmstr/wand

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository gitlab.com/hrbrmstr/wand is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (1)

tools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

rfair

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.0

Authors (1)

Bob Rudis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.5.0

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Bob Rudis (@hrbrmstr)

no longer listed · 0.2.0

Jonathan Ong

no longer listed · 0.2.0

Mans Rullgard

no longer listed · 0.2.0

Christos Zoulas

no longer listed · 0.2.0

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
0.5.0Latest
2019-07-08 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-08-16
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-16
Total releases: 2 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 241 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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