R Observatory: Metrics for tinytest version 1.4.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

tinytest

1.4.3

Lightweight and Feature Complete Unit Testing Framework

451packages depend

706.7Kdownloads / year

70.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mark van der LooFirst published 2019-04-2514 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

70.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

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

READMEYes · 978 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 72%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 68%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

706.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #357 · ~1.9K/day · ~58.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

86.7K30 days

280.3K90 days

706.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on15K r2u148 autocran3.1K conda_forge184 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ markvanderloo/tinytest

244Stars

20Forks

32Open issues

4Open PRs

0Releases

470Commits

15Contributors

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

Stars over time

2025-06-27 · 2272026-07-31 · 244

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/markvanderloo/tinytest on 2026-08-09.

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (2)

parallelutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

451direct

1indirect

and 403 more packages.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Mark van der Loo

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Mark van der Loo

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

14 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
1.4.3Latest
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
2023-02-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.1
2021-07-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.4
2020-12-17 · diff ↗
1.2.3
2020-10-07 · diff ↗
1.2.2
2020-06-18 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2020-05-18 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2020-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0
2019-09-26 · diff ↗

Show 7 earlier events

1.0.0
2019-08-23 · diff ↗
0.9.6
2019-06-28 · diff ↗
0.9.4
2019-06-05 · diff ↗
0.9.3
2019-05-10 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.9.2
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: 574 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("tinytest")

Format

van der Loo, M. (2026). tinytest: Lightweight and Feature Complete Unit Testing Framework (Version 1.4.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.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 v2026-08-11. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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