R Observatory: Metrics for httr version 1.4.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

httr

1.4.8

Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP

1,140packages depend

13.2Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2012-05-0625 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Useful tools for working with HTTP organised by HTTP verbs (GET(), POST(), etc). Configuration functions make it easy to control additional request components (authenticate(), add_headers() and so on).

Install

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

install.packages("httr", 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("r-lib/httr")

Development version from r-lib/httr. 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-httr

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-httr

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-httr

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.19

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-05-03
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 313 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 56%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 34%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

13.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #70 · ~36.2K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

939.4K30 days

2.8M90 days

13.2M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on170.8K r2u174 autocran1.2M conda_forge16.6K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/httr

980Stars

1,958Forks

8Open issues

4Open PRs

20Releases

1,092Commits

77Contributors

rcurlhttpapi

1,092 commits · Last activity 2026-02-13 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-14 · 9752026-07-07 · 980

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/httr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

Show all practices

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesSupport guide

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (5)

curl jsonlite mime openssl R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

covr httpuv jpeg knitr png readr rmarkdown testthat xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1,140direct

1,250indirect

and 1,092 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.8

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.8

Listed in earlier versions (3)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.5 to 1.4.4

Hadley Wickham <hadley@rstudio.com> [cre, aut, cph] RStudio [cph]

no longer listed · 0.6.0 to 0.6.1

Posit, PBC

no longer listed · 1.4.5 to 1.4.7

Package Timeline

25 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.8Latest
2026-02-13 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.4.7
2023-08-15 · diff ↗
1.4.6
2023-05-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.4.5
2023-02-24 · diff ↗
1.4.4
2022-08-17 · diff ↗
1.4.3
2022-05-04 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.4.2
2020-07-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.4.1
2019-08-05 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Show 24 earlier events

1.4.0
2018-12-11 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.3.1
2017-08-20 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2017-08-16 · diff ↗
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.1
2016-07-03 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2016-06-15 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.1.0
2016-01-28 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2015-06-25 · diff ↗
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.6.1
2015-01-01 · diff ↗
0.6.0
2014-12-13 · diff ↗
0.5
2014-09-02 · diff ↗
0.4
2014-07-28 · diff ↗
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.3
2014-03-20 · diff ↗
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.2
2012-10-11 · diff ↗
2.15.2
2012-10-10 · diff ↗
2.15.1
2012-06-19 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2012-06-19 · diff ↗
0.1
2012-05-06
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-05-06
Total releases: 25 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 111 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("httr")

Format

Wickham, H., & Posit Software, PBC. (2026). httr: Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP (Version 1.4.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.httr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for httr version 1.4.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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