R Observatory: Metrics for mockthat version 0.2.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mockthat

0.2.8

Function Mocking for Unit Testing

4packages depend

11.6Kdownloads / year

90.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicolas BennettFirst published 2020-12-093 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 51 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.81

90.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 389 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

11.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,374 · ~32/day · ~970/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31630 days

1.8K90 days

11.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nbenn/mockthat

14Stars

1Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

61Commits

2Contributors

61 commits · Last activity 2022-10-31

Stars over time

2023-09-13 · 142026-07-07 · 14

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/nbenn/mockthat on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

4direct

0indirect

SeaSondeR dynamite geohabnet ricu

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Nicolas Bennett

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Nicolas Bennett

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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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
0.2.8Latest
2022-11-01 · current release · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-11-01
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
2021-04-23 · diff ↗
0.2.4
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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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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 v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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