R Observatory: Metrics for httptest version 4.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

httptest

4.2.4Package record

A Test Environment for HTTP Requests

1packages dependsuggested by 53

44.4Kdownloads / year

98.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Neal RichardsonCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Testing and documenting code that communicates with remote servers can be painful. Dealing with authentication, server state, and other complications can make testing seem too costly to bother with. But it doesn't need to be that hard. This package enables one to test all of the logic on the R sides of the API in your package without requiring access to the remote service. Importantly, it provides three contexts that mock the network connection in different ways, as well as testing functions to assert that HTTP requests were---or were not---made. It also allows one to safely record real API responses to use as test fixtures. The ability to save responses and load them offline also enables one to write vignettes and other dynamic documents that can be distributed without access to a live server.

Changes in 4.2.4

Fix for upcoming CRAN deprecated arguments (#95, #96)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("httptest", 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("nealrichardson/httptest")

Development version from nealrichardson/httptest. 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-httptest

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-httptest

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-httptest

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 OK2026-08-26
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-08-23
WARNING9 OK, 3 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-08-22
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 4.2.4

READMEYes · 1,113 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 4.2.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 30 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 83%5 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 21%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

44.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,075 · ~122/day · ~3.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.4K30 days

8.6K90 days

44.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on221 r2u5 autocran145 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

nealrichardson/httptest ↗Account: nealrichardson

83Stars

14Forks

15Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

257Commits

14Commit identities

httptest-frameworkmockrstats

257 commits · Last activity 2026-07-31 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 97%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 4
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-12 · 822026-07-07 · 83

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nealrichardson/httptest 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

Docs source (1)

pkgdown

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Automation and maintenance (1)

Dependabot

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing httptest adds 31 packages (17 with compiled code, 8.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0testthat

Imports (6)

curl digest httr jsonlitestatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr pkgload rmarkdown spelling xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 53

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

speechbr

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 6 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Jonathan Keane

Contributor · added in 4.0.0

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 4.0.0

Releases (21)

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4.2.4Latest
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2026-08-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
4.2.3
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2025-11-15 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
4.2.2
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2024-01-23 · diff ↗
4.2.1
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2023-06-12 · diff ↗
4.2.0
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2023-05-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_current_requester
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
4.1.0
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2021-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
with_mock_API
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
4.0.0
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2021-02-01 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
buildMockURL, with_fake_HTTP

added 1 export
with_mock_dir
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
3.3.0
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2020-01-28 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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3.2.2
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2018-12-07 · diff ↗
3.2.0
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2018-11-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
use_httptest
3.1.0
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2018-06-19 · diff ↗ ·
removed 3 exports
fakeResponse, redact_http_auth, redact_oauth
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
3.0.0
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2018-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
redact_HTTP_auth

added 18 exports
block_requests, build_mock_url, change_state, end_vignette, fake_response, find_mock_file, get_current_redactor, gsub_request, gsub_response, redact_http_auth, save_response, set_redactor, set_requester, start_vignette, stop_mocking, use_mock_api, with_fake_http, with_mock_api
2.3.4
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2017-11-14 · diff ↗
2.3.2
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2017-10-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
fakeDownload

added 6 exports
redact_HTTP_auth, redact_auth, redact_cookies, redact_headers, redact_oauth, within_body_text
2.1.2
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2017-08-05 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2017-07-31 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2017-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
.mockPaths, fakeDownload
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.3.0
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2017-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
capture_requests, start_capturing, stop_capturing, with_trace
1.2.0
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2017-03-22 · diff ↗
1.1.0
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2017-02-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
expect_header
1.0.0
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2016-12-31
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-31
Total releases: 21 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 118 KB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("httptest")

Format

Richardson, N., Keane, J., & Salmon, M. (2026). httptest: A Test Environment for HTTP Requests (Version 4.2.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.httptest

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for httptest version 4.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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