R Observatory: Metrics for testthis version 1.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

testthis

1.1.1Package record

Utils and 'RStudio' Addins to Make Testing Even More Fun

0packages dependsuggested by 4

7.7Kdownloads / year

26.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Stefan FleckCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Utility functions and 'RStudio' addins for writing, running and organizing automated tests. Integrates tightly with the packages 'testthat', 'devtools' and 'usethis'. Hotkeys can be assigned to the 'RStudio' addins for running tests in a single file or to switch between a source file and the associated test file. In addition, testthis provides function to manage and run tests in subdirectories of the test/testthat directory.

Changes in 1.1.1

use_testdata_raw() gains name argument similar to usethis::use_data(). If name is provided, a script file for a dataset of that name is created (and opened if you are using RStudio) (#15, thanks @TylerGrantSmith)
removed some brittle tests for compatibility with usethis 1.6.0 (#16, thanks @jennybc)
don't load helpers twice in test_this() (#13, thanks @krlmlr)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("testthis", 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("s-fleck/testthis")

Development version from s-fleck/testthis. 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-testthis

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-testthis

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-testthis

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: 1.2 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 1.1.1

READMEYes · 444 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 30%
Documented parameters: 81%
Return-value docs: 80%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,495 · ~21/day · ~638/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34730 days

1.1K90 days

7.7K1 year

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Also on76 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

s-fleck/testthis ↗Account: s-fleck

34Stars

2Forks

6Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

275Commits

9Commit identities

testingtestthatrstudio-addinrstudio-addinsrstudior

275 commits · Last activity 2022-02-15 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.1.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.1.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 75%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-01-02 · 332026-07-07 · 34

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/s-fleck/testthis on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2020-07-21

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

15 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing testthis adds 96 packages (46 with compiled code, 57 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, bslib 5.6 MB, pak 3.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (12)

assertthat devtools fs magrittr pkgload rprojrootstatsstringi testthattoolsusethisutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr crayon knitr rmarkdown roxygen2 rstudioapi

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 4

Suggests, most downloaded first

miniCRAN DNAtools emodnet.wfs sprtt

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Stefan Fleck

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.2 (2017)

Releases (5)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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1.1.1Latest
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2020-04-12 · current release · diff ↗
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2019-05-27 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
test_with_skip, use_testignore

added 3 exports
find_testdata, test_coverage, test_index
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-27
Total releases: 5 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 41 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("testthis")

Format

Fleck, S. (2020). testthis: Utils and 'RStudio' Addins to Make Testing Even More Fun (Version 1.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.testthis

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 testthis version 1.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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