R Observatory: Metrics for fiery version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fiery

1.5.0

A Lightweight and Flexible Web Framework

2packages dependsuggested by 6

20.6Kdownloads / year

78.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A very flexible framework for building server side logic in R. The framework is unopinionated when it comes to how HTTP requests and WebSocket messages are handled and supports all levels of app complexity; from serving static content to full-blown dynamic web-apps. Fiery does not hold your hand as much as e.g. the shiny package does, but instead sets you free to create your web app the way you want.

Changes in 1.5.0

More performant implementation of HandlerStack, DelayStack, and TimeStack. These internal constructs are now implemented as closures instead of R6 classes.
More performant logging. Default is to not log as it is still somewhat expensive. Formatting is now using glue-like formats but not glue and doesn't allow expressions inside the format string
rename logger_silent() to logger_void()`
Remove cli formatting of log messages
Request and Response objects are now unclassed before sending them to the handlers. This will break code that checks the class of these. Use reqres::maybe_request() to check for likeliness to Request objects instead.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("fiery", 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("thomasp85/fiery")

Development version from thomasp85/fiery. 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-fiery

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-fiery

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-fiery

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: 2.8 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 1.5.0

READMEYes · 311 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 60%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

Creating and using fiery plugins HTML
The event cycle in fiery HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

20.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,842 · ~57/day · ~1.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.1K30 days

5K90 days

20.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on582 r2u11 autocran169 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/fiery ↗Account: thomasp85

257Stars

15Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

11Releases

327Commits

5Commit identities

rstatshttpuvwebserverhttp-serverwebsocket-server

327 commits · Last activity 2026-01-12 · +0.4% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.5.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 2562026-10-15 · 257

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/fiery 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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-01-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-12

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-11-17
Seen in the repository: .claude
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fiery adds 27 packages (22 with compiled code, 26 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (16)

cli fs glue httpuv later lifecycle otel promises R6 reqres rlang sodiumstatsstringiutilsyaml

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

callr covr future knitr logger rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.3.0)withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

2indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 6

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

plumber2 fireproof

Suggests, most downloaded first

reqres routr firesale firesafety firestorm aurora

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 0.2.1 (2016), Author

Releases (15)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.5.0Latest
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2026-01-12 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
logger_silent

added 1 export
logger_void
1.4.1
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2025-11-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
logger_silent
1.4.0
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2025-11-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
logger_otel
1.3.0
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2025-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
logger_logger, session_id_cookie
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.1
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2024-02-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.2.0
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2023-03-17 · diff ↗
1.1.4
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2022-08-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1.3
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2020-12-15 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.2
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2019-09-27 · diff ↗

Show 10 earlier eventsHide 10 earlier events

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.1
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2018-10-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
random_port
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.0
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2017-10-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
combined_log_format, common_log_format, logger_console, logger_file, logger_null, logger_switch
1.0.0
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2017-08-16 · diff ↗
0.2.3
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2017-06-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.2.2
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2017-01-07 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2016-07-04
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-07-04
Total releases: 15 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 1.0.0
Download size: 81 KB

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Format

Pedersen, T. L. (2026). fiery: A Lightweight and Flexible Web Framework (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fiery

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fiery version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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