R Observatory: Metrics for exampletestr version 1.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

exampletestr

1.7.3Package record

Help for Writing Unit Tests Based on Function Examples

0packages depend

8.7Kdownloads / year

91.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Rory NolanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Take the examples written in your documentation of functions and use them to create shells (skeletons which must be manually completed by the user) of test files to be tested with the 'testthat' package. Sort of like python 'doctests' for R.

Changes in 1.7.3

BUG FIXES

glue had breaking changes for which exampletestr needed to be fixed.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("exampletestr", 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("rorynolan/exampletestr")

Development version from rorynolan/exampletestr. 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-exampletestr

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-exampletestr

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-exampletestr

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 1.7.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.7.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 0%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

8.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,645 · ~24/day · ~727/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

67730 days

1.4K90 days

8.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

rorynolan/exampletestr ↗Account: rorynolan

36Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

145Commits

5Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 145 commits · Last activity 2024-10-07

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2023-08-14 · 352026-07-07 · 36

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rorynolan/exampletestr 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 conductContributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio 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 exampletestr adds 72 packages (37 with compiled code, 32 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, pak 3.8 MB, fs 1.4 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (13)

checkmate fs magrittr purrr readr rlang roxygen2 rstudioapi strex stringr styler usethis withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

clipr covr crayon knitr pacman rmarkdown spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Rory Nolan

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2017)

Laurent Gatto

Reviewer · added in 1.4.0

Thomas Quinn

Reviewer · added in 1.4.0

Sergi Padilla-Parra

Thesis advisor

Releases (25)

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Package metadata

First published: 2017-03-18
Total releases: 25 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 47 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("exampletestr")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.12688/wellcomeopenres.11635.2.

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

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for exampletestr version 1.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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