R Observatory: Metrics for fauxpas version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fauxpas

0.6.0Package record

HTTP Error Helpers

4packages dependsuggested by 1

64Kdownloads / year

73.7%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

HTTP error helpers. Methods included for general purpose HTTP error handling, as well as individual methods for every HTTP status code, both via status code numbers as well as their descriptive names. Supports ability to adjust behavior to stop, message or warning. Includes ability to use custom whisker template to have any configuration of status code, short description, and verbose message. Currently supports integration with 'crul', 'curl', and 'httr'.

Changes in 0.6.0

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

added some new error classes: 421, 520, 521, 522, 523, 524, 525, 526, 527 (#15)
fixed lost braces note, thanks @adamhsparks (#16)
added _PACKAGE for package level documentation (#14)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fauxpas", 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("sckott/fauxpas")

Development version from sckott/fauxpas. 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-fauxpas

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-fauxpas

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-fauxpas

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘Error.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

READMEYes · 163 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 25%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the fauxpas package

How these are measured

Downloads

64K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,912 · ~175/day · ~5.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.2K30 days

10.1K90 days

64K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1K r2u2 autocran971 conda_forge151 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

sckott/fauxpas ↗Account: sckott

14Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

100Commits

4Commit identities

httperror-handlingrstatsrr-package

100 commits · Last activity 2026-02-19 · The default branch showed an older version (0.5.4) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 122
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2023-03-12 · 142026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sckott/fauxpas on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (3)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-19 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fauxpas adds 3 packages (0 with compiled code, 108 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: R6 63 KB, whisker 28 KB, httpcode 17 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

R6 httpcode whisker

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

crul curl httr testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

webmockr rorcid citecorp rATTAINS

Suggests, most downloaded first

crul

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (5)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.6.0Latest
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2026-02-20 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
http421, http520, http521, http522, http523, http524, http525, http526, http527
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.2
record
2023-05-03 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.0
record
2020-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 9 exports
HTTPATimeoutOccurred, HTTPConnectionTimedOut, HTTPInvalidSSLCertificate, HTTPMisdirectedRequest, HTTPOriginIsUnreachable, HTTPRailgunError, HTTPSSLHandshakeFailed, HTTPWebServerIsDown, HTTPWebServerReturnedUnknownError
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
record
2018-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
find_error_class
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
record
2016-11-16
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-11-16
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 392 KB

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citation("fauxpas")

Format

Chamberlain, S. (2026). fauxpas: HTTP Error Helpers (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fauxpas

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Format

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fauxpas version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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