R Observatory: Metrics for webexercises version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webexercises

1.2.0Package record

Create Interactive Web Exercises

0packages dependsuggested by 2

8.5Kdownloads / year

32.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Caspar J. Van LissaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for easily creating interactive web exercises in 'R Markdown', 'Quarto', and package vignettes that students can use in self-guided learning.

Changes in 1.2.0

Add support for webexercises in package vignettes
Add support for PDF versions of webexercises

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("webexercises", 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("psyteachr/webexercises")

Development version from psyteachr/webexercises. 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-webexercises

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-webexercises

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-webexercises

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: 3.6 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 1.2.0

READMEYes · 130 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 30 (10 internal)
Examples that run: 80%12 run in a plain check · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 71%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

webexercises HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,718 · ~23/day · ~710/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

96130 days

2.6K90 days

8.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on101 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

psyteachr/webexercises ↗Organization: PsyTeachR

36Stars

17Forks

8Open issues

2Open PRs

1Releases

72Commits

5Commit identities

teachingrinteractivewebsite

72 commits · Last activity 2026-09-09 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 79%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 573
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-18 · 342026-09-11 · 36

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/psyteachr/webexercises on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-09

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing webexercises adds 49 packages (25 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, pak 3.8 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.2

Imports (12)

statsutilsjsonlite knitr yamlutilsgrDevicesrstudioapi htmltools cli usethis rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

testthat bookdown quarto xfun pkgdown pdftools

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 2

Suggests, most downloaded first

pema theorytools

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Caspar J. Van Lissa

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2026)

Dale Barr

Author

Lisa DeBruine

Author

Previously maintained by Lisa DeBruine (1.1.0) and Dale Barr (1.0.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Van Lissa

no longer listed · 1.2.0

Releases (3)

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1.2.0Latest
record
2026-09-09 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
add_to_pkgdown, add_to_quarto_file, add_to_rmarkdown_file, quiz, rmd_webex_support, use_webex_vignette, webex_vignette
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.0
record
2023-05-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
add_to_quarto, create_quarto_doc
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0
record
2021-09-15
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-15
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.2
Download size: 593 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("webexercises")

Format

Van Lissa, C. J., Barr, D., & DeBruine, L. (2026). webexercises: Create Interactive Web Exercises (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.webexercises

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 webexercises version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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