R Observatory: Metrics for webutils version 1.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webutils

1.2.3

Utility Functions for Developing Web Applications

7packages depend

438.5Kdownloads / year

35.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsFirst published 2014-10-3011 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Parses http request data in application/json, multipart/form-data, or application/x-www-form-urlencoded format. Includes example of hosting and parsing html form data in R using either 'httpuv' or 'Rhttpd'.

Install

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

install.packages("webutils", 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("jeroen/webutils")

Development version from jeroen/webutils. 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-webutils

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-webutils

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-webutils

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.39

35.9%

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
OK2026-07-21
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-16
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 4 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-07-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-15
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

438.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #390 · ~1.2K/day · ~36.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

48.2K30 days

232.1K90 days

438.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on13.7K r2u20 autocran9K conda_forge333 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ jeroen/webutils

23Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

71Commits

3Contributors

71 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20

Stars over time

2024-03-31 · 232026-07-07 · 23

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jeroen/webutils on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

httpuv testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

7direct

17indirect

ambiorix beakr opencpu plumber plumber2 reqres curl

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

11 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.2.3Latest
2026-07-21 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.2.2
2024-10-04 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2024-08-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.2.0
2023-11-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.1
2020-04-28 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.0
2019-08-21 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.6
2017-06-23 · diff ↗

Show 8 earlier events

0.5
2017-04-29 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
0.4
2015-10-27 · diff ↗
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.3
2015-01-24 · diff ↗
0.2
2014-10-30
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10

Package metadata

First published: 2014-10-30
Total releases: 11 / 12 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 23 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Cite this package

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citation("webutils")

Format

Ooms, J. (2026). webutils: Utility Functions for Developing Web Applications (Version 1.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.webutils

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for webutils version 1.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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