R Observatory: Metrics for servr version 0.33

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

servr

0.33

A Simple HTTP Server to Serve Static Files or Dynamic Documents

25packages depend

630.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2013-10-0535 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Start an HTTP server in R to serve static files, or dynamic documents that can be converted to HTML files (e.g., R Markdown) under a given directory.

Install

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

install.packages("servr", 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("yihui/servr")

Development version from yihui/servr. 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-servr

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-servr

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-servr

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-arm64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 42%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

630.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #517 · ~1.7K/day · ~52.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39.6K30 days

144.1K90 days

630.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yihui/servr

290Stars

34Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

34Releases

422Commits

13Contributors

rr-packageweb-serverhttp-serverwebsocket

422 commits · Last activity 2026-06-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-14 · 2852026-07-07 · 290

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yihui/servr on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Governance and community (1)

Funding

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (4)

mime httpuv xfun jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

toolslater rstudioapi knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

25direct

51indirect

CICA animint2 azuremlsdk blogdown iheiddown mapview pagedown redist rgexf rqti threeBrain tmap tmap.sources xaringan FastRet LDAvis altdoc animate bookdown brainR collatz dataspice drhur sentopics webdriver

Code & Tests

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (4)

Jesse Anderson

Contributor · added in 0.2

Romain Lesur

Contributor · added in 0.24

Carson Sievert

Contributor · added in 0.2

Ramnath Vaidyanathan

Contributor · added in 0.3

Copyright holders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.27

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.27

Package Timeline

35 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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
3.0.3
2013-10-05 · diff ↗
0.1
2013-10-05
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-10-05
Total releases: 35 / 13 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 24 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Xie, Y., Posit Software, PBC, Anderson, J., Lesur, R., Sievert, C., & Vaidyanathan, R. (2026). servr: A Simple HTTP Server to Serve Static Files or Dynamic Documents (Version 0.33) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.servr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for servr version 0.33 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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