R Observatory: Metrics for websocket version 1.4.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

websocket

1.4.4Package record

'WebSocket' Client Library

7packages dependsuggested by 5

795.7Kdownloads / year

45.3%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Winston ChangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Provides a 'WebSocket' client interface for R. 'WebSocket' is a protocol for low-overhead real-time communication: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebSocket.

Changes in 1.4.4

Silences inaccurate deprecation warnings from certain C++ compilers. (#116)
Fixes builds for Windows systems without openssl.pc. (@jeroen, #117)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("websocket", 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("rstudio/websocket")

Development version from rstudio/websocket. 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-websocket

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-websocket

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-websocket

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘WebSocket.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-05-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-05-08
OK13 OK2026-05-02
NOTE11 OK, 3 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.4

READMEYes · 436 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.4Citation fileNo

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check (under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Overview HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

795.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #380 · ~2.2K/day · ~66.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

51.9K30 days

236.1K90 days

795.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on9.3K r2u6 autocran6K conda_forge88 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/websocket ↗Organization: rstudio

93Stars

20Forks

37Open issues

6Open PRs

9Releases

278Commits

9Commit identities

278 commits · Last activity 2025-04-10 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.4.4.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.4.4 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 12
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-09-01 · 932026-09-14 · 93

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/rstudio/websocket on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-04-10

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing websocket adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 3.6 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, rlang 766 KB, AsioHeaders 683 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

R6 later

LinkingTo (3)

cpp11 AsioHeaders later

Suggests (4)

httpuv testthat knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

42indirect

Imports 7

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

chromote pagedown firestorm shinyloadtest tinyshinyserver maths.genealogy okxAPI

Suggests, most downloaded first

httpuv shinylight ambiorix suwo drogonR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Winston Chang

Author, Maintainer since 1.2.0 (2020)

Author

Author

Author

Contributor, Copyright holder

SHA1 library

Bjoern Hoehrmann

Contributor, Copyright holder

UTF8 Validation library

René Nyffenegger

Contributor, Copyright holder

Base 64 library

Peter Thorson

Contributor, Copyright holder

WebSocket++ library

Aladdin Enterprises

Copyright holder

MD5 library

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder · added in 1.4.2

Previously maintained by Alan Dipert (1.0.0 to 1.1.0).

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 1.4.1

Releases (10)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-06-18
Total releases: 10 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 197 KB

Cite

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citation("websocket")

Format

Chang, W., Aladdin Enterprises, , Borges, B., Cheng, J., Dipert, A., Hildenborg, M., Hoehrmann, B., Nyffenegger, R., Posit, PBC, , & Thorson, P. (2025). websocket: 'WebSocket' Client Library (Version 1.4.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.websocket

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for websocket version 1.4.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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