R Observatory: Metrics for autotest version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

autotest

0.2.0Package record

Automatic Package Testing

0packages dependsuggested by 1

775downloads / year

72.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark PadghamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Automatic testing of R packages by tracing function calls made in examples and tests, then systematically varying the inputs to check that functions respond sensibly. The package is a development aid for authors submitting to the 'rOpenSci' statistical software review project ('rOpenSci' authors, 2021; doi:10.5281/zenodo.5556756).

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("autotest", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("ropensci-review-tools/autotest")

Development version from ropensci-review-tools/autotest. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-autotest

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-autotest

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-autotest

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.5 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK5 OK2026-09-13

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 919 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 9 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 38%3 run in a plain check · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

775

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,196 · ~2/day · ~65/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48230 days

77590 days

7751 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on9 r2u29 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ropensci-review-tools/autotest ↗Organization: ropensci-review-tools

54Stars

6Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

1,180Commits

6Commit identities

automated-testingfuzzingrtesting

1,180 commits · Last activity 2026-09-13 · Default branch at 0.2.0.003, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 101
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ropensci-review-tools/autotest on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct (inherited from ropensci-review-tools)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2021-07-05

pkgdown site last built 2021-07-05, before release 0.2.0 (2026-09-12)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Automation and maintenance (1)

pre-commit

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-29
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Commits: at least 6 crediting it in the message

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Sonnet 56 commits · Jul 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing autotest adds 37 packages (20 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: data.table 5.7 MB, fs 1.4 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (15)

checkmate cli data.table fsgrDeviceshere magrittr memoisemethodspkgload rlang testthat tibble typetracer withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

devtools dplyr DT goodpractice knitr rmarkdown roxygen2 tidyr usethis

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

rcrisp

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Mark Padgham

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2026)

Jouni Helske

Contributor

Releases (1)

0.2.0Latest
record
first seen 2026-09-12 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-09-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 1.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("autotest")

Format

Padgham, M., & Helske, J. (2026). autotest: Automatic Package Testing (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.autotest

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for autotest version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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