R Observatory: Metrics for mockthat version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mockthat

0.2.8Package record

Function Mocking for Unit Testing

0packages dependsuggested by 4

10.6Kdownloads / year

90.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicolas BennettCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

With the deprecation of mocking capabilities shipped with 'testthat' as of 'edition 3' it is left to third-party packages to replace this functionality, which in some test-scenarios is essential in order to run unit tests in limited environments (such as no Internet connection). Mocking in this setting means temporarily substituting a function with a stub that acts in some sense like the original function (for example by serving a HTTP response that has been cached as a file). The only exported function 'with_mock()' is modeled after the eponymous 'testthat' function with the intention of providing a drop-in replacement.

Changes in 0.2.8

Remove some tests: due to an internal change in jsonlite, this is no longer a useful example.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mockthat", 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("nbenn/mockthat")

Development version from nbenn/mockthat. 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-mockthat

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-mockthat

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-mockthat

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: 49 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.8

READMEYes · 389 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.8Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

10.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,620 · ~29/day · ~887/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

57330 days

1.5K90 days

10.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on76 r2u3 autocran487 conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

nbenn/mockthat ↗Account: nbenn

14Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

61Commits

2Commit identities

61 commits · Last activity 2022-10-31

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 64

Stars over time

2023-09-13 · 142026-07-07 · 14

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nbenn/mockthat 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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2022-10-31 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mockthat adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 766 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (2)

utilsrlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat pkgload curl jsonlite withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 4

Suggests, most downloaded first

dynamite geohabnet ricu SeaSondeR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Nicolas Bennett

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.4 (2020)

Releases (3)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-11-01
0.2.8Latest
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2022-11-01 · current release · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-10-18
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.6
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2021-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mock_arg
0.2.4
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2020-12-09
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-12-09
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 13 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mockthat")

Format

Bennett, N. (2022). mockthat: Function Mocking for Unit Testing (Version 0.2.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mockthat

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mockthat version 0.2.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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