httptest

4.2.3

A Test Environment for HTTP Requests

55packages depend

51.3Kdownloads / year

98.0%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Neal RichardsonFirst published 2016-12-3120 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Testing and documenting code that communicates with remote servers can be painful. Dealing with authentication, server state, and other complications can make testing seem too costly to bother with. But it doesn't need to be that hard. This package enables one to test all of the logic on the R sides of the API in your package without requiring access to the remote service. Importantly, it provides three contexts that mock the network connection in different ways, as well as testing functions to assert that HTTP requests were---or were not---made. It also allows one to safely record real API responses to use as test fixtures. The ability to save responses and load them offline also enables one to write vignettes and other dynamic documents that can be distributed without access to a live server.

Install

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

install.packages("httptest", 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("nealrichardson/httptest")

Development version from nealrichardson/httptest. 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-httptest

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-httptest

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-httptest

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.44

98.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,113 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

51.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,844 · ~140/day · ~4.3K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nealrichardson/httptest

83Stars

12Forks

15Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

253Commits

12Contributors

httptest-frameworkmockrstats

253 commits · Last activity 2025-11-16 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nealrichardson/httptest on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0testthat

Imports (6)

curl digest httr jsonlitestatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr pkgload rmarkdown spelling xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

55direct

0indirect

and 7 more packages.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 4,499 (71%)Rd 1,170 (18%)Vignettes 650 (10%)JSON 31 (0%)Other 4 (0%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 10 max
Test cases: 136 / 1.44 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

98%

Expression

98.0%

Tests / Examples

98.0% / 27% ex

Functions

77 39 exported

Complexity

2.2 avg / 10 max

Call network

77 nodes / 98 edges

Call graph

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Lowest coverage

77 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
save_response exp	10	82%
capture_requests exp	2	83%
find_mock_file exp	6	93%
start_capturing exp	4	95%
.mockPaths exp	3	100%
block_requests exp	1	100%

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Neal Richardson

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (2)

Jonathan Keane

Contributor · added in 4.0.0

Maëlle Salmon

Contributor · added in 4.0.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-31
Total releases: 20 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 118 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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