On 5/1/20 11:35 PM, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
The tools package is not for users, it's for functions that R uses in
installing packages, checking them, etc.
I think the target group for this functionality is the group of R
developers, not regular R users.
If you want a function for
users, i
> 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
The tools package is not for users, it's for functions that R uses in
installing packages, checking them, etc. If you want a function for
users, it would belong in utils. But what's wrong with the digest
package? What's the argument that R Core should take this on?
Duncan Murdoch
On 01/05/
On 5/1/20 11:09 PM, John Mount wrote:
Perhaps use the digest package? Isn't "R the R packages?"
I think it is clear that I am aware of the existence of the digest
package and also of other packages with similar functionality, e.g. the
fastdigest package. (And I actually do use digest as I
Perhaps use the digest package? Isn't "R the R packages?"
> On May 1, 2020, at 2:00 PM, Dénes Tóth wrote:
>
>
> AFAIK there is no hashing utility in base R which can create hash digests of
> arbitrary R objects. However, as also described by Henrik Bengtsson in [1],
> we have tools::md5sum()
AFAIK there is no hashing utility in base R which can create hash
digests of arbitrary R objects. However, as also described by Henrik
Bengtsson in [1], we have tools::md5sum() which calculates MD5 hashes of
files. Calculating hashes of in-memory objects is a very common task in
several area
