air

0.2.3

AI Assistant to Write and Understand R Code

0packages depend

4.9Kdownloads / year

73.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Davis VaughanFirst published 2023-11-172 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An R console utility that lets you ask R related questions to the 'OpenAI' large language model. It can answer how-to questions by providing code, and what-is questions by explaining what given code does. You must provision your own key for the 'OpenAI' API https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference.

Install

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

install.packages("air", 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("soumyaray/air")

Development version from soumyaray/air. 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-air

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-air

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-air

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 49 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.51

73.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 669 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

4.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,305 · ~13/day · ~406/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ soumyaray/air

14Stars

4Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

60Commits

2Contributors

60 commits · Last activity 2025-07-27

Stars over time

2024-12-21 · 142026-07-07 · 14

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/soumyaray/air on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (4)

httr keyring result rjson

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

testthat vcr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Davis Vaughan

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.3

Authors (2)

Davis Vaughan

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.2.3

Soumya Ray

Author

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.3Latest
2025-07-27 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.2
2023-11-17
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-11-17
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 12 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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