R Observatory: Metrics for tinytest version 1.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tinytest

1.4.3Package record

Lightweight and Feature Complete Unit Testing Framework

7packages dependsuggested by 458

752.6Kdownloads / year

70.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a lightweight (zero-dependency) and easy to use unit testing framework. Main features: install tests with the package. Test results are treated as data that can be stored and manipulated. Test files are R scripts interspersed with test commands, that can be programmed over. Fully automated build-install-test sequence for packages. Skip tests when not run locally (e.g. on CRAN). Flexible and configurable output printing. Compare computed output with output stored with the package. Run tests in parallel. Extensible by other packages. Report side effects.

Changes in 1.4.3

tt.pr.color is now set to FALSE when the NO_COLOR environment variable is set. See https://no-color.org/
expect_<condition> now uses conditionMessage internally. This should increase compatibility with packages defining custom conditions. (thanks to Tim Taylor for suggesting and Etienne Bacher for reporting)
expect_match is now available when testing packages (thanks to Tim Taylor for the PR and Marcel Ramos for reporting)
fix in pattern matching for warnings (thanks for Matthijs Berends for the PR)
Fixed exit_if_not() that would always exit (thanks to Vincent Arel-Bundock for reporting)

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("tinytest", 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("markvanderloo/tinytest")

Development version from markvanderloo/tinytest. 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-tinytest

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-tinytest

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-tinytest

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: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-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 1.4.3

READMEYes · 978 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 20 (2 internal)
Examples that run: 72%13 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 4 never run
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 68%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

tinytest by example PDF
Using tinytest PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

752.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #424 · ~2.1K/day · ~62.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

54.2K30 days

196.9K90 days

752.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on15.4K r2u223 autocran3.1K conda_forge166 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

markvanderloo/tinytest ↗Account: markvanderloo

245Stars

21Forks

33Open issues

6Open PRs

0Releases

470Commits

15Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 470 commits · Last activity 2026-03-21 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 93%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 8
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-07 · 2312026-09-13 · 245

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/markvanderloo/tinytest on 2026-10-22.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing tinytest adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (2)

parallelutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

1indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 6

Suggested by 458

Show the 48 most downloaded packagesHide the 48 most downloaded packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tinysnapshot packager ttdo test.assessr tinytest2JUnit epidata QR

Suggests, most downloaded first

and 417 more packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Mark van der Loo

Author, Maintainer since 0.9.2 (2019)

Releases (14)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.3Latest
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2026-03-24 · current release · diff ↗
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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
1.4.1
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2023-02-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
exit_if_not, expect_length, expect_match
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.1
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2021-07-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.4
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2020-12-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
expect_inherits
1.2.3
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2020-10-07 · diff ↗
1.2.2
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2020-06-18 · diff ↗
1.2.1
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2020-05-18 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2020-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
expect_equal_to_reference, expect_equivalent_to_reference, expect_stdout, get_call_wd
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
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2019-09-26 · diff ↗

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1.0.0
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2019-08-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
exit_file, expect_null, puppy, register_tinytest_extension, report_side_effects, using
0.9.6
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2019-06-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
all_fail, all_pass, any_fail, any_pass, expect_message, expect_silent
0.9.4
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2019-06-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
setup_tinytest
0.9.3
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2019-05-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
expect_identical
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.9.2
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2019-04-25
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-25
Total releases: 14 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Download size: 582 KB

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citation("tinytest")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for tinytest version 1.4.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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