blob: A Simple S3 Class for Representing Vectors of Binary Data ('BLOBS')

R's raw vector is useful for storing a single binary object. What if you want to put a vector of them in a data frame? The 'blob' package provides the blob object, a list of raw vectors, suitable for use as a column in data frame.

Version:	1.3.0
Imports:	methods, rlang, vctrs (≥ 0.2.1)
Suggests:	covr, crayon, pillar (≥ 1.2.1), testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-01-14
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.blob
Author:	Hadley Wickham [aut], Kirill Müller [cre], RStudio [cph, fnd]
Maintainer:	Kirill Müller <kirill at cynkra.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/tidyverse/blob/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://blob.tidyverse.org, https://github.com/tidyverse/blob
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	blob results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

blob.html , blob.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	blob_1.3.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: blob_1.3.0.zip, r-release: blob_1.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: blob_1.3.0.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): blob_1.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): blob_1.3.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): blob_1.3.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): blob_1.3.0.tgz
Old sources:	blob archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse imports:	DBItest, dbplyr, odbc, ragnar, RMariaDB, Rparadox, RPostgres, RSQLite, tfevents
Reverse suggests:	arrow, b32, b64, bcputility, bigrquery, bigrquerystorage, constructive, DBI, dbx, ipaddress, nanoarrow, sf, tibble

Linking:

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