R Observatory: Metrics for httr version 1.4.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

httr

1.4.9Package record

Tools for Working with URLs and HTTP

1,022packages dependsuggested by 121

13Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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).

Changes in 1.4.9

Fixes for R CMD check

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-06
ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-08-21
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-10
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-03
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.9

READMEYes · 313 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.9Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 67 (19 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 51%23 run in a plain check · 21 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 69%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 34%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

13M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #51 · ~35.7K/day · ~1.1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

944.5K30 days

3.2M90 days

13M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on214.8K r2u227 autocran1.5M conda_forge20.7K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/httr ↗Organization: r-lib

983Stars

1,954Forks

8Open issues

4Open PRs

21Releases

1,099Commits

77Commit identities

rcurlhttpapi

1,099 commits · Last activity 2026-09-01 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.4.9.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.4.9 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 61%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,210
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 142

Stars over time

2025-06-14 · 9752026-09-24 · 983

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/httr on 2026-10-18.

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 (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesSupport guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-01

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing httr adds 7 packages (6 with compiled code, 2.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

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

1,022direct

1,274indirect

Depends 23 · Imports 999

Suggested by 121

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 974 more dependents and 121 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2012)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.4.8

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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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

Releases (26)

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2.15.2Latest
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2012-10-10 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
guess_media, hmac_sha1, http_status, oauth2.0_token, parse_media, sign_oauth1.0, sign_oauth2.0, url_ok, url_success, warn_for_status
2.15.1
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2012-06-19 · diff ↗

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1.4.9
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2026-09-01 · diff ↗
1.4.8
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1.4.6
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1.4.1
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2019-08-05 · diff ↗
1.4.0
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2018-12-11 · diff ↗
1.3.1
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2017-08-20 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2017-08-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
safe_callback

added 4 exports
get_callback, oauth2.0_access_token, oauth2.0_authorize_url, set_callback
1.2.1
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2016-07-03 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2016-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
RETRY, http_type
1.1.0
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2016-01-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
http_error, message_for_status, sha1_hash
1.0.0
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2015-06-25 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
brew_dr, write_init, write_opts, write_term

added 1 export
httr_dr
0.6.1
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2015-01-01 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2014-12-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
new_token

added 12 exports
Token, Token1.0, Token2.0, TokenServiceAccount, VERB, brew_dr, handle_find, handle_reset, oauth_service_token, revoke_all, safe_callback, write_stream
0.5
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2014-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
cache_info, http_date, parse_http_date, rerequest, write_disk, write_function, write_init, write_memory, write_opts, write_term
0.4
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2014-07-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
new_bin

added 14 exports
accept, content_type, content_type_json, content_type_xml, cookies, curl_docs, has_content, headers, httr_options, oauth_header, oauth_signature, progress, status_code, with_verbose
0.3
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2014-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
http_condition, init_oauth1.0, init_oauth2.0, new_token, oauth_endpoints, oauth_exchanger
0.2
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2012-10-11 · diff ↗
0.1.1
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2012-06-19 · diff ↗
0.1
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2012-05-06
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-05-06
Total releases: 26 / 14 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 111 KB

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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 1.4.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.httr

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for httr version 1.4.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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