> So yes, if one wants to use all the utilities or the various algos that the > digest package provides, one should install and load it. But if one can live > with MD5 hashes, why not use the built-in R function? (Well, without > serializing an object to a file, calling tools::md5sum, and then cleaning up > the file.)
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