Source: r-cran-blob Maintainer: Debian R Packages Maintainers Uploaders: Andreas Tille Section: gnu-r Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 11~), dh-r, r-base-dev, r-cran-prettyunits Standards-Version: 4.1.4 Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-blob Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/r-pkg-team/r-cran-blob.git Homepage: https://cran.r-project.org/package=blob Package: r-cran-blob Architecture: all Depends: ${R:Depends}, ${misc:Depends} Recommends: ${R:Recommends} Suggests: ${R:Suggests} Description: GNU R 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.