R Observatory: Metrics for shinytest version 1.6.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shinytest

1.6.1Package record

Test Shiny Apps

0packages dependsuggested by 22

57.3Kdownloads / year

12.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Winston ChangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Please see the 'shinytest' to 'shinytest2' migration guide at https://rstudio.github.io/shinytest2/articles/z-migration.html.

Changes in 1.6.1

shinytest is now officially deprecated. Please use shinytest2 instead.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("shinytest", 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("rstudio/shinytest")

Development version from rstudio/shinytest. 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-shinytest

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-shinytest

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-shinytest

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: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6.1

READMEYes · 165 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6.1Citation fileNo

Help pages: 16 (8 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 14%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 14%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

57.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,239 · ~157/day · ~4.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.3K30 days

7.5K90 days

57.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on589 r2u7 autocran2.2K conda_forge91 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/shinytest ↗Organization: rstudio

224Stars

52Forks

52Open issues

1Open PRs

7Releases

858Commits

24Commit identities

858 commits · Last activity 2024-05-28 · The default branch showed an older version (1.6.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-11

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 42
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-09-03 · 2232026-07-07 · 224

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/shinytest on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-05-28

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing shinytest adds 65 packages (33 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (20)

assertthat callr crayon debugme digest htmlwidgets httpuv httr jsonlite parsedate pingr R6 rematch rlang rstudioapi shiny testthatutilswebdriver withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

flexdashboard globals rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 22

Show all 22 packagesHide all 22 packages

Suggests, most downloaded first

shinytest2 r2d3 shinyTree scdhlm TreeSearch jsmodule presize shinyauthr grapesAgri1 nomnoml optimall baRcodeR shinymodels IDEAFilter viewpoly shinymgr mlr3shiny oceanexplorer leafdown phecodemap kesernetwork mmaqshiny

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Winston Chang

Author, Maintainer since 1.3.0 (2018)

Gábor Csárdi

Author

Hadley Wickham

Author · added in 1.5.0

Ascent Digital Services

Copyright holder, ccp · added in 1.5.4

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.5.4

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Mango Solutions

no longer listed · 1.4.0 to 1.5.3

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.4.0 to 1.5.3

Releases (9)

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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
1.5.1
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2021-09-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.5.0
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2021-01-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getInputProcessors, osName, registerInputProcessor
1.4.0
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2020-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
migrateShinytestDir
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.3.1
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2019-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

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1.3.0
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2018-05-07
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-07
Total releases: 9 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 228 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shinytest")

Format

Chang, W., Ascent Digital Services, Posit Software, PBC, Csárdi, G., & Wickham, H. (2024). shinytest: Test Shiny Apps (Version 1.6.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shinytest

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 shinytest version 1.6.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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