R Observatory: Metrics for webfakes version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webfakes

1.5.0

Fake Web Apps for HTTP Testing

1packages dependsuggested by 36

351.5Kdownloads / year

35.1%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Create a web app that makes it easier to test web clients without using the internet. It includes a web app framework with path matching, parameters and templates. Can parse various 'HTTP' request bodies. Can send 'JSON' data or files from the disk. Includes a web app that implements the 'httpbin.org' web service.

Changes in 1.5.0

New keep_alive_timeout_ms option in server_opts() to configure the idle timeout of keep-alive connections. The default is 5000 ms, up from the underlying CivetWeb default of 500 ms (#114).
Handler functions may now declare a locals argument, in which case webfakes passes app$locals to it directly, without having to access it through req$app$locals (#112).
webfakes now builds on platforms where ar does not writes a symbol index by default (@barracuda156, #121).
webfakes now parses HTTP date headers (e.g. Date, Last-Modified, Expires) correctly regardless of the user's LC_TIME setting (@lbm364dl, #124).
Route matching now ignores trailing slashes. Use regular expressions (new_regexp()) if you need exact trailing slash matching (#120).

Show all changes in 1.5.0Hide the rest of the changes in 1.5.0

httpbin_app()'s /post, /put, /patch, /delete and /anything* endpoints now return the request body in the data field for any Content-Type, matching httpbin.org (#115).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("webfakes", 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/webfakes")

Development version from r-lib/webfakes. 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-webfakes

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-webfakes

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-webfakes

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: 4.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-08
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-30

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NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-29
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK13 OK2026-05-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-12
OK14 OK2026-04-16
WARNING9 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-03-21
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-17
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.0

READMEYes · 528 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 30 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%18 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

351.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #687 · ~963/day · ~29.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

22.6K30 days

78.3K90 days

351.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.8K r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/webfakes ↗Organization: r-lib

62Stars

6Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

17Releases

594Commits

7Commit identities

594 commits · Last activity 2026-06-06 · Default branch at 1.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.5.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 96%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 48
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-15 · 622026-07-07 · 62

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

14 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/webfakes 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 (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-06-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-17

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (4)

Lint workflowAirVS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (3)

statstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

brotli callr covr curl digest glue httpuv httr jsonlite processx testthat withr xml2 zip (>= 2.3.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 36

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

wikkitidy

Suggests, most downloaded first

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.1 (2020)

Civetweb contributors

Contributor

see inst/credits/ciwetweb.md

L. Peter Deutsch

Contributor

src/md5.h

Martin Purschke

Contributor

src/md5.h

Redoc contributors

Contributor

see inst/credits/redoc.md

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 1.3.0

Aladdin Enterprises

Copyright holder

src/md5.h

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Pbc.

no longer listed · 1.1.1 to 1.1.6

RStudio, Pbc.

no longer listed · 1.1.7 to 1.2.1

Releases (15)

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1.5.0Latest
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.1
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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2024-04-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.0
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2023-12-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
git_app, mw_cgi
1.2.1
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2023-10-01 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2023-05-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
http_time_stamp, mw_cookie_parser, mw_range_parser
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-11-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-12-16
Total releases: 15 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 1.8 MB

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citation("webfakes")

Format

Csárdi, G., Posit Software, PBC, Aladdin Enterprises, , Civetweb contributors, , Deutsch, L. P., Purschke, M., Redoc contributors, , & Salmon, M. (2026). webfakes: Fake Web Apps for HTTP Testing (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.webfakes

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for webfakes version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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