R Observatory: Metrics for doctest version 0.4.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

doctest

0.4.1Package record

Generate Tests from Examples Using 'roxygen' and 'testthat'

0packages dependsuggested by 2

10.8Kdownloads / year

97.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David Hugh-JonesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Creates 'testthat' tests from 'roxygen' examples using simple tags.

Changes in 0.4.1

Bugfix: @testRaw lines were producing empty lines in .Rd files. Thanks @MLopez-Ibanez.
This will be the last release on CRAN. Future versions will be available as GitHub releases or via https://r-universe.dev/.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("doctest", 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("hughjonesd/doctest")

Development version from hughjonesd/doctest. 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-doctest

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-doctest

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-doctest

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: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.4.1

READMEYes · 285 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.4.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 10includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,781 · ~30/day · ~902/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.5K30 days

5.3K90 days

10.8K1 year

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Also on108 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

hughjonesd/doctest ↗Account: hughjonesd

36Stars

4Forks

4Open issues

1Open PRs

4Releases

181Commits

4Commit identities

181 commits · Last activity 2026-07-29 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-08 · 312026-08-01 · 36

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/hughjonesd/doctest on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-29

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2025-12-04
Commits: 3 by its own account
Claude Codefirst seen 2026-07-29
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

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

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing doctest adds 36 packages (19 with compiled code, 9.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

cli fs pkgload purrr rlang roxygen2 testthat

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

covr knitr lifecycle rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

moocore onetime

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

David Hugh-Jones

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2023)

Releases (4)

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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

Package metadata

First published: 2023-04-28
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 902 KB

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citation("doctest")

Format

Hugh-Jones, D. (2026). doctest: Generate Tests from Examples Using 'roxygen' and 'testthat' (Version 0.4.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.doctest

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for doctest version 0.4.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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