request

0.1.0

High Level 'HTTP' Client

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Scott ChamberlainFirst published 2016-01-031 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

High level and easy 'HTTP' client for 'R'. Provides functions for building 'HTTP' queries, including query parameters, body requests, headers, authentication, and more.

Install

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

install.packages("request", 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("sckott/request")

Development version from sckott/request. 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-request

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

# 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-request

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
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Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,702 · ~8/day · ~254/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sckott/request

36Stars

3Forks

11Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

138Commits

1Contributors

httprr-statscurlcurl-libraryapi

138 commits · Last activity 2020-06-16

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/sckott/request on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (2)

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

httr

Imports (9)

methodsstatsutilscurl jsonlite magrittr lazyeval whisker R6

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Scott Chamberlain

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.1.0Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-03
Total releases: 1 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 21 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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