R Observatory: Metrics for covr version 3.6.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

covr

3.6.5Package record

Test Coverage for Packages

11packages dependsuggested by 2,322

2.6Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jim HesterCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Track and report code coverage for your package and (optionally) upload the results to a coverage service like 'Codecov' https://about.codecov.io or 'Coveralls' https://coveralls.io. Code coverage is a measure of the amount of code being exercised by a set of tests. It is an indirect measure of test quality and completeness. This package is compatible with any testing methodology or framework and tracks coverage of both R code and compiled C/C++/FORTRAN code.

Changes in 3.6.5

New Features and improvements

Added support for klmr/box modules. This works best with file_coverage(). (@radbasa, #491)
Performance improvement for compiled code with a lot of compilation units (@krlmlr, #611)
Fix R CMD check NOTE for upcoming R 4.6: non-API calls to SET_BODY, SET_CLOENV, SET_FORMALS (@t-kalinowski, #587)

Fixes and minor improvements

Messages are now displayed using cli instead of crayon (@olivroy, #591).
covr now uses testthat::with_mocked_bindings() for its internal testing (@olivroy, #595).
Fix a bug preventing package_coverage() from running tests when install_path is set to a relative path (@gergness, #517, #548).
Fixed a performance regression and an error triggered by a change in R 4.4.0. (@kyleam, #588)
Fixed an issue where attempting to generate code coverage on an already-loaded package could fail on Windows. (@kevinushey, #574)

Show all changes in 3.6.5Hide the rest of the changes in 3.6.5

Prevent covr.record_tests option from logging duplicate tests when the same line of testing code is hit repeatedly, as in a loop. (@dgkf, #528)
Normalize install_path path before creating directory to prevent failures when running covr in a subprocess using a path with Windows \\ path separators. (@maksymiuks, #592)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("covr", 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("r-lib/covr")

Development version from r-lib/covr. 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-covr

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-covr

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-covr

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: 3.8 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.6.5

READMEYes · 626 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.6.5Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 43 (12 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 63%5 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 30%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 20%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

How does covr work anyway HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #255 · ~7.1K/day · ~215.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

155.2K30 days

497.6K90 days

2.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on18.3K r2u207 autocran38.6K conda_forge502 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/covr ↗Organization: r-lib

348Stars

124Forks

93Open issues

10Open PRs

10Releases

1,243Commits

74Commit identities

rcoveragecodecovtravis-cicoverage-report

1,243 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.6.5.9001, ahead of CRAN 3.6.5 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 78%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 16
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 10

Stars over time

2025-10-14 · 3402026-09-25 · 348

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/covr on 2026-10-11.

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 (2)

Code of conductSecurity policy

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-09 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2023-11-08, before release 3.6.5 (2025-11-09)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 4 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing covr adds 13 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.1.0methods

Imports (9)

digeststatsutilsjsonlite rex httr cli withr (>= 1.0.2)yaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

R6 S7 curl knitr rmarkdown htmltools DT (>= 0.2)testthat rlang rstudioapi xml2 (>= 1.0.0)parallelmemoise covr box

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

1indirect

Imports 11

Suggested by 2,322

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rhino goodpractice pkgcheck pkgnet riskmetric test.assessr nRegression checkhelper assertHE mutator SMARTp

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 2,285 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (28)

Jim Hester

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2015)

Will Beasley

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Henrik Bengtsson

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Bootstrap contributors

Contributor · added in 3.2.0

Bootstrap library

Eric Brown

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Chris Campbell

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Jon Clayden

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Gergely Daróczi

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Robert Flight

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

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Karl Forner

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Brodie Gaslam

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Jouni Helske

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

David Hugh-Jones

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Doug Kelkhoff

Contributor · added in 3.6.0

Robert Krzyzanowski

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Willem Ligtenberg

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Kirill Müller

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Jeroen Ooms

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Mark Otto

Contributor · added in 3.2.0

Bootstrap library

Steve Peak

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Kun Ren

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Ivan Sagalaev

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 3.2.0

highlight.js library

Kirill Sevastyanenko

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Jacob Thornton

Contributor · added in 3.2.0

Bootstrap library

Markus Wamser

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Qin Wang

Contributor · added in 3.0.0

Ken Williams

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Twitter, Inc

Copyright holder · added in 3.2.0

Bootstrap library

Releases (24)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.5.0
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2020-03-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
to_sonarqube
3.4.0
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2019-11-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
in_covr

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-09-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
shine

added 4 exports
display_name, environment_coverage, file_report, gitlab
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added 1 export
coverage_to_list
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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added 1 export
code_coverage
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added 1 export
to_cobertura
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file_coverage, report
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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removed 4 exports
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-05-20
Total releases: 24 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 3.6.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 170 KB

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Hester, J., Beasley, W., Bengtsson, H., Bootstrap contributors, , Brown, E., Campbell, C., Clayden, J., Daróczi, G., Flight, R., Forner, K., Gaslam, B., Helske, J., Hugh-Jones, D., Kelkhoff, D., Krzyzanowski, R., Ligtenberg, W., Müller, K., Ooms, J., Otto, M., Peak, S., Ren, K., Sagalaev, I., Sevastyanenko, K., Thornton, J., Twitter, Inc, , Wamser, M., Wang, Q., & Williams, K. (2025). covr: Test Coverage for Packages (Version 3.6.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.covr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for covr version 3.6.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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