Is foreign safe to use?

foreign has no known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.8-91). DepScope rates its health at 57/100 (high risk).

What is the latest version of foreign?

The latest version of foreign is 0.8-91, released 2026-01-29.

No known vulnerabilities on the latest version of foreign.

No, foreign is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.8-91 (2026-01-29).

DepScope has no curated alternatives for foreign at this time.

foreign is licensed under GPL (>= 2).

cranv0.8-91

Read Data Stored by 'Minitab', 'S', 'SAS', 'SPSS', 'Stata', 'Systat', 'Weka', 'dBase', ...

License GPL (>= 2)0 versions1 maintainers3 deps19,031 weekly dl

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 57/100)

Health breakdown0 – 100

20/25

maintenance

10/20

popularity

25/25

security

0/15

maturity

2/15

community

Vulnerabilities

none known

Dependencies (3)

API access

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First published · 2026-01-29 18:06:01

Last updated · 2026-01-29T16:49:54+00:00