R Observatory: Metrics for request version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

request

0.1.0Package record

High Level 'HTTP' Client

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

High level and easy 'HTTP' client for 'R'. Provides functions for building 'HTTP' queries, including query parameters, body requests, headers, authentication, and more.

Install

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

install.packages("request", 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("sckott/request")

Development version from sckott/request. 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-request

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-request

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-request

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus@gmail.com>’

Found the following (possibly) invalid file URI:
  URI: CONDUCT.md
    From: README.md

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 58 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 430 wordsVignettesNoNEWS· In the repository, left out of the releaseCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%11 never run
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,409 · ~8/day · ~247/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22130 days

72990 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on82 r2u4 autocran133 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

sckott/request ↗Account: sckott

36Stars

3Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

138Commits

1Commit identities

httprr-statscurlcurl-libraryapi

138 commits · Last activity 2020-06-16 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.1.6.91, ahead of CRAN 0.1.0 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 59
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2022-02-18 · 362026-07-07 · 36

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sckott/request on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

Travis CI (config file)AppVeyor

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing request adds 12 packages (9 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

httr

Imports (9)

methodsstatsutilscurl jsonlite magrittr lazyeval whisker R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2016)

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.1.0Latest
record
2016-01-03 · current release
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-03
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 21 KB

Appears in task views

Web Technologies and Services

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("request")

Format

Chamberlain, S. (2016). request: High Level 'HTTP' Client (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.request

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for request version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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