vctrs: Vector Helpers

Defines new notions of prototype and size that are used to provide tools for consistent and well-founded type-coercion and size-recycling, and are in turn connected to ideas of type- and size-stability useful for analysing function interfaces.

Version:	0.7.1
Depends:	R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports:	cli (≥ 3.4.0), glue, lifecycle (≥ 1.0.3), rlang (≥ 1.1.7)
Suggests:	bit64, covr, crayon, dplyr (≥ 0.8.5), generics, knitr, pillar (≥ 1.4.4), pkgdown (≥ 2.0.1), rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble (≥ 3.1.3), waldo (≥ 0.2.0), withr, xml2, zeallot
Published:	2026-01-23
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.vctrs
Author:	Hadley Wickham [aut], Lionel Henry [aut], Davis Vaughan [aut, cre], data.table team [cph] (Radix sort based on data.table's forder() and their contribution to R's order()), Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd]
Maintainer:	Davis Vaughan <davis at posit.co>
BugReports:	https://github.com/r-lib/vctrs/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://vctrs.r-lib.org/, https://github.com/r-lib/vctrs
NeedsCompilation:	yes
Language:	en-GB
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	vctrs results [issues need fixing before 2026-03-27]

Documentation:

Reference manual:	vctrs.html , vctrs.pdf
Vignettes:	Printing vectors nicely in tibbles (source, R code) S3 vectors (source, R code) Type and size stability (source, R code) Prototypes and sizes (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	vctrs_0.7.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: vctrs_0.7.1.zip, r-release: vctrs_0.7.1.zip, r-oldrel: vctrs_0.7.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): vctrs_0.7.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): vctrs_0.7.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): vctrs_0.7.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): vctrs_0.7.1.tgz
Old sources:	vctrs archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse depends:	taxa
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Reverse linking to:	slider
Reverse suggests:	AMR, anndataR, arcgislayers, arcgisutils, asympDiag, AzureGraph, bench, bigD, blvim, charcuterie, Cleanet, confcons, constructive, CPGLIB, cpp11, cutpointr, DBI, delimtools, DistributionIV, distributions3, duckdb, editbl, epocakir, errors, fastai, fauxnaif, fs, geos, glue, gmapsdistance, grates, ir, jsonlite, lifecycle, logbin, lubridate, matchedcc, MiscMetabar, mobsim, multifear, nanoarrow, NeEDS4BigData, pctax, PLindleyROC, PSGD, quantities, ravetools, rimu, rlang, rmarkdown, s2, sacRebleu, serp, sf, sfdep, sftime, SplitGLM, stepSplitReg, testthat, tidybulk, tidyjson, tidytuesdayR, tinylabels, twbparser, units, vosonSML, winch, wk

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