Skip to contents

Compute the MD5 hash of an object

Source: R/md5.R
md5.Rd

Wrapper for calling tools::md5sum() on objects rather than files.

Usage

md5(x, bytes = getOption("mark.md5.bytes"))

Arguments

x

An object

bytes

If TRUE will use the bytes argument in tools::md5sum(), available in R >= 4.5.0. If NA (the default) will use TRUE if available.

Value

A md5sum object

Details

All x objects are serialized to a temporary file before tools::md5sum() is called.

Examples

md5("hello")
#> 6c0ab239b664493e860c1619ed379898
md5(1:10)
#> 80e76ade6af799c5b55e6447e7bf0d7b
md5(data.frame(a = 1:10, b = letters[1:10]))
#> 088023b9c6c6ae5f2e7997a91de9b7c0