R Observatory: Metrics for reqres version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

reqres

1.2.0Package record

Powerful Classes for HTTP Requests and Responses

5packages dependsuggested by 2

19.7Kdownloads / year

70.8%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

In order to facilitate parsing of http requests and creating appropriate responses this package provides two classes to handle a lot of the housekeeping involved in working with http exchanges. The infrastructure builds upon the 'rook' specification and is thus well suited to be combined with 'httpuv' based web servers.

Changes in 1.2.0

Added unclass_request() and maybe_request() to allow you to strip off a bit of overhead by working with the objects as bare environments
Added mock_request() to create a mock request

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("reqres", 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("thomasp85/reqres")

Development version from thomasp85/reqres. 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-reqres

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-reqres

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-reqres

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: 2.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-06
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-09-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-16
OK13 OK2026-09-07

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-18
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-07-15
OK13 OK2026-07-04
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-07-01
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-26
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-19
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 698 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 15 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 79%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

19.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,933 · ~54/day · ~1.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1K30 days

4.7K90 days

19.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on896 r2u8 autocran157 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/reqres ↗Account: thomasp85

40Stars

4Forks

5Open issues

2Open PRs

6Releases

197Commits

2Commit identities

rstatshttp-serverhttprequestresponse

197 commits · Last activity 2025-12-11 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.2.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 246

Stars over time

2025-04-08 · 392026-07-07 · 40

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

13 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/reqres 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 2025-12-11 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-12-11

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

AirVS Code

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing reqres adds 22 packages (17 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (17)

R6 stringi urltoolstoolsbrotli jsonlite xml2 webutilsutilscli rlang lifecycle base64enc sodium promises mirai otel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

fiery testthat covr keyring shiny

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

5direct

4indirect

Imports 5

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

fiery routr firesale plumber2 fireproof

Suggests, most downloaded first

firestorm aurora

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2017), Author

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.0Latest
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2025-12-11 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
maybe_request, mock_request, unclass_request
1.1.0
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2025-11-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2025-08-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 19 exports
abort_bad_request, abort_conflict, abort_forbidden, abort_gone, abort_http_problem, abort_internal_error, abort_method_not_allowed, abort_not_acceptable, abort_not_found, abort_status, abort_unauthorized, handle_problem, is_reqres_problem, is_session_cookie_settings, mime_type_from_file, mime_type_info, query_parser, random_key, session_cookie
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.2.5
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2022-08-19 · 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
0.2.3
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2019-10-02 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.2.2
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2018-11-12 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.1
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2017-10-25 · diff ↗

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0.2.0
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2017-08-12
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-08-12
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 122 KB

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citation("reqres")

Format

Pedersen, T. L. (2025). reqres: Powerful Classes for HTTP Requests and Responses (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.reqres

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for reqres version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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