R Observatory: Metrics for aisdk version 1.4.12

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aisdk

1.4.12Package record

Unified Interface for AI Model Providers

1packages depend

94.3Kdownloads / year

66.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yonghe XiaCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A production-grade AI toolkit for R featuring a layered architecture (Specification, Utilities, Providers, Core), request interception support, robust error handling with exponential retry delays, support for multiple AI model providers ('OpenAI', 'Anthropic', etc.), local small language model inference, distributed 'MCP' ecosystem, multi-agent orchestration, progressive knowledge loading through skills, and a global skill store for sharing AI capabilities.

Changes in 1.4.12

Exported a small, stable "extension API" so that companion provider packages (such as aisdk.providers) can build on the core HTTP and image-handling machinery without reaching into the aisdk namespace: api_endpoint_urls(), post_to_api(), post_multipart_to_api(), finalize_image_artifacts(), materialize_image_upload(), normalize_image_input_for_json() and normalize_image_input_to_url_like(). These are documented with \keyword{internal} (kept out of the main help index) and are intended for package authors rather than end users; their behaviour is unchanged.
When a model ID names a provider that lives in a companion package (e.g. deepseek:..., kimi:...) but that package is not installed, the provider registry now offers to install it in interactive sessions and, in non-interactive sessions, fails with a clear hint naming the package to install. Resolution of already-available providers is unchanged.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("aisdk", 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("YuLab-SMU/aisdk")

Development version from YuLab-SMU/aisdk. 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-aisdk

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-aisdk

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-aisdk

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: 7.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-17
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-02

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ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-05-30
OK7 OK2026-04-01

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.4.12

READMEYes · 697 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.4.12Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 316 (92 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 25%16 run in a plain check · 40 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 9 never run
Exported functions with examples: 30%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

94.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #884 · ~258/day · ~7.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

15.1K30 days

48.5K90 days

94.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7.1K r2u33 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

yulab-smu/aisdk ↗Organization: YuLab-SMU

76Stars

8Forks

7Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

75Commits

2Commit identities

75 commits · Last activity 2026-08-26 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.0, ahead of CRAN 1.4.12 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-02-01 · 12026-09-24 · 76

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yulab-smu/aisdk on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-26

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-27
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Commits: at least 15 crediting it in the message
Devinfirst seen on or before 2026-05-27
Named in .Rbuildignore: .devin
Gemini CLIfirst seen on or before 2026-05-27
Named in .Rbuildignore: .gemini

Shared conventions any agent may read, so they name no particular tool.

Seen in the repository: AGENTS.md

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.712 commits · May 2026
Claude Opus 4.82 commits · Jun 2026
Claude Fable 51 commit · Jul 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing aisdk adds 24 packages (17 with compiled code, 7.1 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (16)

R6 httr2 jsonlite rlang yaml callr processx memoise digestparallelstatstoolsutilsmethodsbase64enc curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

testthat httptest2 cli skimr evaluate ggplot2 dplyr readr readxl DBI RSQLite rstudioapi DT withr devtools fs dotenv pkgload

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

aisdk.providers

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Yonghe Xia

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2026)

Releases (4)

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1.4.12Latest
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2026-06-02 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
api_endpoint_urls, finalize_image_artifacts, materialize_image_upload, normalize_image_input_for_json, normalize_image_input_to_url_like, post_multipart_to_api, post_to_api
1.4.11
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2026-05-30 · diff ↗
1.4.10
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2026-05-29 · diff ↗ ·
removed 96 exports
AgentTeam, AiHubMixProvider, BailianProvider, ChannelAdapter, ChannelRuntime, ChannelSessionStore, DeepSeekProvider, FeishuChannelAdapter, FileChannelSessionStore, Flow, McpClient, McpDiscovery, McpRouter, McpServer, McpSseClient, Mission, MissionHookHandler, MissionOrchestrator, MissionStep, NvidiaProvider, OpenRouterProvider, SkillStore, SlmEngine, StepfunProvider, VolcengineProvider, XAIProvider, aiChatServer, aiChatUI, analyze_r_package, apiConfigServer and 66 more

added 78 exports
CaptureRenderer, GenerateImageResult, ImageModelV1, OpenAIImageModel, OpenAILanguageModel, Renderer, analyze_image, as_preview_text, ask_ai, call_object_accessor, capture_r_execution, clear_capability_model, clear_error_context, collect_ai_context, context_get, context_search, create_ask_user_tool, create_auto_skill_registry, create_capture_renderer, create_context_management_config, create_context_query_tools, create_default_semantic_adapter_registry, create_null_renderer, create_r_context_tools, create_r_introspect_tools, create_semantic_adapter, create_semantic_adapter_registry, default_skill_roots, describe_semantic_object, edit_image and 48 more
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0
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2026-03-31
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-31
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 568 KB

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Format

Xia, Y. (2026). aisdk: Unified Interface for AI Model Providers (Version 1.4.12) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.aisdk

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for aisdk version 1.4.12 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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