R Observatory: Metrics for rvest version 1.0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rvest

1.0.5

Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages

257packages depend

6.9Mdownloads / year

76.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamFirst published 2014-11-2215 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Wrappers around the 'xml2' and 'httr' packages to make it easy to download, then manipulate, HTML and XML.

Install

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

install.packages("rvest", 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("tidyverse/rvest")

Development version from tidyverse/rvest. 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-rvest

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-rvest

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-rvest

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.50

76.0%

Coverage · measured lines

98%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-16
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 4 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-04-15
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-09
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 · 121 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 85%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 41%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

6.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #163 · ~18.9K/day · ~576K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

326.4K30 days

1.1M90 days

6.9M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on62.4K r2u99 autocran957.3K conda_forge14.8K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ tidyverse/rvest

1,522Stars

348Forks

31Open issues

8Open PRs

15Releases

467Commits

35Contributors

rweb-scrapinghtml

467 commits · Last activity 2025-09-09 · +0.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-05 · 1,4882026-08-01 · 1,522

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tidyverse/rvest on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Show all practices

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

Governance and community (3)

Issue templatesCODEOWNERSSupport guide

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (9)

cli glue httr lifecycle magrittr rlang selectr tibble xml2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

chromote covr knitr purrr R6 readr repurrrsive rmarkdown spelling stringi testthat tidyr webfakes

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

257direct

141indirect

and 209 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.0

Authors (1)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.3.0

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.4

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.0.4

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Hadley Wickham <h.wickham@gmail.com> [aut,cre] RStudio [cph]

no longer listed · 0.2.0

RStudion

no longer listed · 0.3.0 to 0.3.1

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.3.2 to 1.0.3

Package Timeline

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

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.5Latest
2025-08-29 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.0.4
2024-02-12 · diff ↗
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.0.3
2022-08-20 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.2
2021-10-17 · diff ↗
1.0.1
2021-07-26 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.0
2021-03-09 · diff ↗
0.3.6
2020-07-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.5
2019-11-09 · diff ↗
0.3.4
2019-05-15 · diff ↗

Show 12 earlier events

R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.3
2019-04-11 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.3.2
2016-06-17 · diff ↗
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.3.1
2015-11-11 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2015-09-23 · diff ↗
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.2.0
2015-01-01 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2014-11-22
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-11-22
Total releases: 15 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 119 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Wickham, H., & Posit Software, PBC. (2025). rvest: Easily Harvest (Scrape) Web Pages (Version 1.0.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rvest

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rvest version 1.0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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