R Observatory: Metrics for httptest2 version 1.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

httptest2

1.2.2Package record

Test Helpers for 'httr2'

0packages dependsuggested by 79

76.4Kdownloads / year

99.4%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

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

Testing and documenting code that communicates with remote servers can be painful. This package helps with writing tests for packages that use 'httr2'. It enables testing all of the logic on the R sides of the API without requiring access to the remote service, and it also allows recording real API responses to use as test fixtures. The ability to save responses and load them offline also enables writing vignettes and other dynamic documents that can be distributed without access to a live server.

Changes in 1.2.2

Compatibility with testthat 3.3.0

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("httptest2", 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/httptest2")

Development version from nealrichardson/httptest2. 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-httptest2

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-httptest2

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-httptest2

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  httptest2/R/content-type.R (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.2

READMEYes · 327 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 20 (7 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 39%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 94%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

76.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,656 · ~209/day · ~6.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.4K30 days

13.3K90 days

76.4K1 year

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Also on598 r2u12 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

nealrichardson/httptest2 ↗Account: nealrichardson

36Stars

4Forks

9Open issues

1Open PRs

6Releases

309Commits

13Commit identities

testingmockrhttp

309 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.2.2 (checked 2026-10-11) · Discussions: 2 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-20 · 342026-07-07 · 36

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nealrichardson/httptest2 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-25 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-25

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing httptest2 adds 31 packages (17 with compiled code, 9.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (7)

digest httr2 jsonlite rlangstatstestthat (>= 3.1.5)utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

curl knitr pkgload rmarkdown spelling webfakes xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2022)

Jonathan Keane

Contributor

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor

Releases (6)

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-10
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 102 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("httptest2")

Format

Richardson, N., Keane, J., & Salmon, M. (2025). httptest2: Test Helpers for 'httr2' (Version 1.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.httptest2

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for httptest2 version 1.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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