R Observatory: Metrics for httr2 version 1.3.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

httr2

1.3.0

Perform HTTP Requests and Process the Responses

500packages depend

4.7Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2021-09-2222 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools for creating and modifying HTTP requests, then performing them and processing the results. 'httr2' is a modern re-imagining of 'httr' that uses a pipe-based interface and solves more of the problems that API wrapping packages face.

Install

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

install.packages("httr2", 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/httr2")

Development version from r-lib/httr2. 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-httr2

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-httr2

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-httr2

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.78

not tracked

Coverage

99%

Documentation · exports

10

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
OK2026-07-03
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-01
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-11
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 10 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-01
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-22
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-21
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-06
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-04
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-24
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-23
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-26
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-25
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 388 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 73%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.7M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #156 · ~12.8K/day · ~390.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

380.4K30 days

1.2M90 days

4.7M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on121.1K r2u18 autocran328.1K conda_forge2.6K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/httr2

268Stars

88Forks

21Open issues

6Open PRs

22Releases

805Commits

65Contributors

rhttp

805 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25 · +1.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 2512026-08-04 · 268

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/httr2 on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Show all practices

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (10)

cli curl glue lifecycle magrittr openssl R6 rlang vctrs withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (22)

askpass bench clipr covr digest docopt httpuv jose jsonlite knitr later nanonext otel otelsdk paws.common promises rappdirs rmarkdown testthat tibble webfakes xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

500direct

316indirect

and 452 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Maximilian Girlich

Contributor · added in 1.0.0

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.2

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.2

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 1.0.1

Package Timeline

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

1.3.0Latest
2026-07-14 · current release · diff ↗
1.2.3
2026-06-23 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.2
2025-12-08 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2025-07-22 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2025-07-13 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.2
2025-03-26 · diff ↗
1.1.1
2025-03-08 · diff ↗
1.1.0
2025-01-18 · diff ↗
1.0.7
2024-11-27 · diff ↗
1.0.6
2024-11-04 · diff ↗
1.0.5
2024-09-26 · diff ↗
1.0.4
2024-09-14 · diff ↗
1.0.3
2024-08-22 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2024-07-16 · diff ↗

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.1
2024-04-01 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2023-11-14 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2023-05-08 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.2
2022-09-25 · diff ↗
0.2.1
2022-05-11 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2022-04-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.1.1
2021-09-28 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2021-09-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-22
Total releases: 22 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 295 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("httr2")

Format

Wickham, H., Posit Software, PBC, & Girlich, M. (2026). httr2: Perform HTTP Requests and Process the Responses (Version 1.3.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.httr2

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for httr2 version 1.3.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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