R Observatory: Metrics for testthat version 3.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

testthat

3.3.2

Unit Testing for R

133packages dependsuggested by 12,603

11.3Mdownloads / year

84.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hadley WickhamCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Software testing is important, but, in part because it is frustrating and boring, many of us avoid it. 'testthat' is a testing framework for R that is easy to learn and use, and integrates with your existing 'workflow'.

Changes in 3.3.2

testthat now emits OpenTelemetry traces for tests when tracing is enabled. Requires the otel and otelsdk packages (#2282).
default_parallel_reporter() is no longer exported; use default_reporter(parallel = TRUE) instead (#2305).
expect_snapshot() once again reports the original error class for base errors, rather than rlang_error (#2286).
expect_snapshot_file() once again works with shinytest2 on CI (#2293, #2288).
expect_snapshot_file() correctly reports file name if duplicated (@MichaelChirico, #2296).
expect_success() and expect_failure() now always report the observed number of successes and failures (#2297).
LlmReporter() is a new reporter designed for use by LLM coding agents. It's used automatically inside Claude Code, Cursor, and Gemini CLI, and you can set AGENT=1 to use with any coding agent (#2287).
local_mocked_s3_method() and local_mocked_s4_method() can now mock methods that don't already exist, and can use definition = NULL to temporarily remove a method. local_mocked_s4_method() now also works when the generic is defined in another package (#2302).
local_snapshotter() restores snap_dir to be the first argument for compatibility with devtools 2.4.6 (#2309).
test_dir() no longer runs tests in parallel if only a single file is being tested (#2305).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("testthat", 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("r-lib/testthat")

Development version from r-lib/testthat. 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-testthat

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-testthat

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-testthat

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: 6.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-09-01
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-25
OK13 OK2026-08-21

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-08-20
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-12
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-13
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-05-30
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-28
OK13 OK2026-05-05
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-04
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-20
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-15
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-12
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.3.2

READMEYes · 286 wordsVignettesYes · 9 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.3.2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 109 (51 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%39 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 39%
Documented parameters: 80%
Return-value docs: 18%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (9)

How these are measured

Downloads

11.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #72 · ~30.9K/day · ~940.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

737.3K30 days

2.6M90 days

11.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on188.4K r2u151 autocran404.5K conda_forge281 bioconda5.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/testthat ↗Organization: r-lib

942Stars

348Forks

25Open issues

10Open PRs

41Releases

2,635Commits

148Commit identities

runit-testing

2,635 commits · Last activity 2026-09-30 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.3.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.3.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 11
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 3

Stars over time

2025-10-04 · 9062026-10-13 · 942

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/testthat on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductCODEOWNERS

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-01-12

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2025-07-30
Seen in the repository: .claude, .claude/skills
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

31 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing testthat adds 23 packages (10 with compiled code, 5.8 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: fs 1.4 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (18)

brio callr cli desc (>= 1.4.3)evaluate jsonlite lifecycle (>= 1.0.4)magrittrmethodspkgload praise processx ps R6 (>= 2.6.1)rlangutilswaldo withr (>= 3.0.2)

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

covr curl diffviewer digest (>= 0.6.33)gh knitr otel otelsdk rmarkdown rstudioapi S7 shiny usethis vctrs xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

133direct

194indirect

Depends 11 · Imports 87 · LinkingTo 36

Suggested by 12,603

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 85 more dependents and 12,603 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Hadley Wickham

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2009)

R Core team

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Implementation of utils::recover()

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 3.1.8

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Hadley Wickham <hadley@rstudio.com> [aut, cre] RStudio [cph]

no longer listed · 0.9 to 0.9.1

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.10.0 to 3.1.7

Releases (51)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.3.2Latest
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2026-01-11 · current release · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
default_parallel_reporter

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LlmReporter
3.3.1
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2025-11-25 · diff ↗
3.3.0
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2025-11-13 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
is_false, is_null, is_true, matches

added 18 exports
SlowReporter, expect_all_equal, expect_all_false, expect_all_true, expect_disjoint, expect_r6_class, expect_shape, extract_test, local_mocked_r6_class, local_mocked_s3_method, local_mocked_s4_method, local_on_cran, mock_output_sequence, pass, simulate_test_env, skip_unless_r, snapshot_download_gh, snapshot_reject
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.2.3
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2024-12-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
expect_no_failure, expect_no_success, expect_s7_class, expect_snapshot_failure
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.2.1.1
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3.1.9
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expect_contains, expect_in, is_checking, is_snapshot, set_state_inspector
3.1.8
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2023-05-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
it
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.1.7
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2023-03-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
local_mocked_bindings, with_mocked_bindings

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3.1.6
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2022-12-10 · diff ↗
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expect_no_condition, expect_no_error, expect_no_message, expect_no_warning, set_max_fails
3.1.4
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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expect_snapshot_warning
3.1.1
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announce_snapshot_file, compare_file_binary, compare_file_text, expect_no_match
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
3.0.2
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2020-12-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
RstudioReporter

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RStudioReporter
3.0.0
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2020-10-31 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
expect_known_failure

added 23 exports
CompactProgressReporter, ParallelProgressReporter, context_start_file, default_compact_reporter, default_parallel_reporter, edition_get, expect_snapshot, expect_snapshot_error, expect_snapshot_file, expect_snapshot_output, expect_snapshot_value, is_parallel, local_edition, local_reproducible_output, local_snapshotter, local_test_context, local_test_directory, run_cpp_tests, snapshot_accept, snapshot_review, teardown_env, test_local, testthat_print
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.3.2
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2.3.1
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2019-12-01 · diff ↗
2.3.0
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2019-11-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
exp_signal, is_informative_error, new_expectation, testthat_tolerance
2.2.1
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2.2.0
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2019-07-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
skip_on_covr, verify_output
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.1.1
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2019-04-24 · diff ↗
2.1.0
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2019-04-23 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
check_repoter

added 11 exports
check_reporter, expect_invisible, expect_mapequal, expect_vector, expect_visible, local_mock, skip_if_offline, skip_on_ci, testing_package, testthat_example, testthat_examples
2.0.1
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2018-10-13 · diff ↗
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.0.0
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2017-12-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 29 exports
DebugReporter, JunitReporter, LocationReporter, ProgressReporter, capture_condition, capture_error, capture_expectation, capture_message, capture_output_lines, capture_warning, check_repoter, default_reporter, expect_condition, expect_known_failure, expect_known_hash, expect_known_output, expect_known_value, expect_reference, expect_setequal, is_testing, quasi_label, setup, show_failure, skip_if, skip_if_translated, source_test_setup, source_test_teardown, teardown, test_rd
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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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2016-04-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
expect_output_file
1.0.0
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2016-04-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 19 exports
%>%, FailReporter, capture_messages, capture_output, capture_warnings, expect, expect_cpp_tests_pass, expect_failure, expect_length, expect_s3_class, expect_s4_class, expect_success, expect_type, skip_if_not, skip_on_bioc, source_file, test_path, try_again, use_catch
0.11.0
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2015-10-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
expect_gt, expect_gte, expect_lt, expect_lte, expect_silent, skip_on_appveyor, skip_on_os
0.10.0
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2015-05-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
colourise, library_if_available

added 10 exports
CheckReporter, RstudioReporter, compare, find_test_scripts, skip_if_not_installed, skip_on_travis, source_test_helpers, succeed, test_example, test_examples
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.9.1
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0.9
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2014-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
describe, equals_reference, expect_equal_to_reference, skip, skip_on_cran, with_mock
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.8.1
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2014-02-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 21 exports
ListReporter, MultiReporter, Reporter, SilentReporter, TeamcityReporter, evaluate_promise, expect_less_than, expect_more_than, expect_named, expect_null, get_reporter, has_names, is.expectation, is_less_than, is_more_than, is_null, not, set_reporter, test_check, test_env, with_reporter
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.7.1
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added 2 exports
TapReporter, fail
0.7
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2012-06-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
make_expectation
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
0.6
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
0.5
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2011-06-01 · diff ↗
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
0.4
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2011-03-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
expectation
R
R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
0.3
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2010-08-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 14 exports
expect_is, expect_true, expect_false, expect_equal, expect_equivalent, expect_identical, expect_match, expect_output, expect_error, gives_warning, expect_warning, shows_message, expect_message, test_package
0.2
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2010-07-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 24 exports
auto_test, auto_test_package, colourise, context, expect_that, is_a, is_true, is_false, equals, is_equivalent_to, is_identical_to, matches, prints_text, throws_error, takes_less_than, library_if_available, MinimalReporter, StopReporter, SummaryReporter, test_dir, source_dir, test_file, test_that, watch
R
R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
0.1.1
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2009-11-30 · diff ↗
0.1
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2009-11-17
R
R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2009-11-17
Total releases: 51 / 17 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL in 0.8
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 814 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for testthat version 3.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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