R Observatory: Metrics for withr version 3.0.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

withr

3.0.3Package record

Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State

398packages dependsuggested by 1,231

20.6Mdownloads / year

85.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Lionel HenryCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

A set of functions to run code 'with' safely and temporarily modified global state. Many of these functions were originally a part of the 'devtools' package, this provides a simple package with limited dependencies to provide access to these functions.

Changes in 3.0.3

Fixes for CRAN checks.
Fixed issue that prevented local_seed() from preserving the seed (#286, @BjarkeHautop). Note: If you had before: ``r test_that("A", { withr::local_seed(1) # Seeds locally runif(...) }) test_that("B", { runif(...) # NO seed of its own }) `` Before the fix, the test "B" was accidentally seeded by "A". Now it needs to be seeded on its own.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/withr. 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-withr

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-withr

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-withr

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: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-22
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.0.3

READMEYes · 597 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 3.0.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 28 (4 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%20 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 77%
Documented parameters: 85%
Return-value docs: 81%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Changing and restoring state HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

20.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10 · ~56.6K/day · ~1.7M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.7M30 days

5.3M90 days

20.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on310K r2u173 autocran2.4M conda_forge25.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

r-lib/withr ↗Organization: r-lib

181Stars

47Forks

27Open issues

4Open PRs

17Releases

610Commits

36Commit identities

r

610 commits · Last activity 2026-10-12 · +0.6% stars, 30d · Default branch at 3.0.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 3.0.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 84
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 1772026-10-10 · 181

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/withr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-12 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-06-22

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (2)

lintrRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (2)

graphicsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

callr DBI knitrmethodsrlang rmarkdown RSQLite testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

398direct

10,748indirect

Imports 398

Suggested by 1,231

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 350 more dependents and 1,231 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (9)

Lionel Henry

Author, Maintainer since 2.4.3 (2021) · added in 2.4.3

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 2.0.0

Hadley Wickham

Author

Jennifer Bryan

Contributor · added in 2.3.0

Richard Cotton

Contributor · added in 2.1.0

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.5.1

Previously maintained by Jim Hester (1.0.0 to 2.4.2).

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.5.0

Kirill M<U+00FC>ller

no longer listed · 2.0.0

Releases (20)

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3.0.3Latest
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2026-06-19 · 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
3.0.2
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3.0.1
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
3.0.0
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2024-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
global_defer
2.5.2
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2023-10-30 · diff ↗
2.5.1
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2023-09-26 · 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
2.5.0
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2022-03-03 · diff ↗
2.4.3
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2021-11-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
local_language, with_language
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.4.2
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2021-04-18 · diff ↗
2.4.1
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2021-01-26 · diff ↗

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2.4.0
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2021-01-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
local_seed
2.3.0
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2020-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
local_makevars, local_preserve_seed, local_tempdir
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.2.0
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2020-04-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
deferred_clear, deferred_run, local_rng_version, local_timezone, makevars_user, with_rng_version, with_tempdir, with_timezone
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.1.2
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2018-03-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
set_makevars
2.1.1
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2017-12-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
local_file, with_file
2.1.0
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2017-11-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 32 exports
local_bmp, local_cairo_pdf, local_cairo_ps, local_connection, local_db_connection, local_environment, local_jpeg, local_namespace, local_package, local_pdf, local_png, local_postscript, local_svg, local_tempfile, local_tiff, local_xfig, with_bmp, with_cairo_pdf, with_cairo_ps, with_connection, with_db_connection, with_environment, with_jpeg, with_namespace, with_package, with_pdf, with_png, with_postscript, with_svg, with_tempfile and 2 more
2.0.0
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2017-07-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 16 exports
defer, defer_parent, local_, local_collate, local_dir, local_envvar, local_libpaths, local_locale, local_message_sink, local_options, local_output_sink, local_par, local_path, local_temp_libpaths, with_preserve_seed, with_seed
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0.2
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.1
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2016-02-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
with_message_sink, with_output_sink
1.0.0
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2015-09-23
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-09-23
Total releases: 20 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL (>= 2) in 2.4.0
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Download size: 102 KB

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Henry, L., Posit Software, PBC, Bryan, J., Chang, W., Cotton, R., Hester, J., Müller, K., Ushey, K., & Wickham, H. (2026). withr: Run Code 'With' Temporarily Modified Global State (Version 3.0.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.withr

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for withr version 3.0.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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