R Observatory: Metrics for webutils version 1.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

webutils

1.2.3Package record

Utility Functions for Developing Web Applications

6packages dependsuggested by 1

430.9Kdownloads / year

35.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeroen OomsCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

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'.

Changes in 1.2.3

Fix -Wdiscarded-qualifiers warning on gcc-16

From NEWS in the release

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. 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-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). 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: 2.0 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-05
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-21

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-07-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-08
OK13 OK2026-05-16
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-15
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.3

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 5
Examples that run: 67%2 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

430.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #602 · ~1.2K/day · ~35.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23.1K30 days

102.5K90 days

430.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on14K r2u4 autocran8.9K conda_forge431 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jeroen/webutils ↗Account: jeroen

23Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

71Commits

3Commit identities

71 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 33%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-03-31 · 232026-07-07 · 23

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jeroen/webutils 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

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing webutils adds 2 packages (2 with compiled code, 1.7 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

httpuv testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

17indirect

Imports 6

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

plumber reqres opencpu ambiorix plumber2 beakr

Suggests, most downloaded first

curl

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeroen Ooms

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2014)

Releases (11)

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1.2.3Latest
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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
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-06-23 · diff ↗

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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
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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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

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

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

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 webutils version 1.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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