webfakes

1.5.0

Fake Web Apps for HTTP Testing

30packages depend

344.6Kdownloads / year

35.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gábor CsárdiFirst published 2020-12-1615 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create a web app that makes it easier to test web clients without using the internet. It includes a web app framework with path matching, parameters and templates. Can parse various 'HTTP' request bodies. Can send 'JSON' data or files from the disk. Includes a web app that implements the 'httpbin.org' web service.

Install

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

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

Development version from r-lib/webfakes. 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-webfakes

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-webfakes

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-webfakes

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.43

35.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-24
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-12
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-16
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 3 earlier snapshots

WARNING2026-03-21
9 OK · 4 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-17
13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 528 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

344.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #615 · ~944/day · ~28.7K/mo

Releases R versions

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32.4K30 days

108.2K90 days

344.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ r-lib/webfakes

62Stars

6Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

17Releases

594Commits

7Contributors

594 commits · Last activity 2026-06-06

Stars over time

2025-04-15 · 622026-07-07 · 62

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/r-lib/webfakes on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (3)

AirVS CodeRStudio project

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Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6

Imports (3)

statstoolsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

brotli callr covr curl digest glue httpuv httr jsonlite processx testthat withr xml2 zip (>= 2.3.0)

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

30direct

0indirect

wikkitidy edr4r finbif fireproof gh httping httptest2 httr2 nodbi orderly otelsdk packrat pak photon pins pkgcache pkgdepends processx ps rcmdcheck remotes renv rhub rsconnect rversions rvest shinyOAuth urlchecker vcr zip

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gábor Csárdi

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (5)

Civetweb contributors

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Funders (1)

Listed in earlier versions (2)

RStudio, Pbc.

no longer listed · 1.1.1 to 1.1.6

RStudio, Pbc.

no longer listed · 1.1.7 to 1.2.1

Package Timeline

15 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

1.5.0Latest
2026-05-17 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.4.1
2026-04-08 · diff ↗
1.4.0
2025-06-24 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.3.2
2025-01-11 · diff ↗
1.3.1
2024-04-25 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.3.0
2023-12-11 · diff ↗
1.2.1
2023-10-01 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2023-05-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.1.7
2023-02-08 · diff ↗
1.1.6
2022-11-08 · diff ↗
1.1.5
2022-10-25 · diff ↗
1.1.4
2022-09-08 · 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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1.1.1
2020-12-16
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-12-16
Total releases: 15 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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