R Observatory: Metrics for chatLLM version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

chatLLM

0.1.4Package record

A Flexible Interface for 'LLM' API Interactions

0packages depend

2.7Kdownloads / year

47.0%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kwadwo Daddy Nyame Owusu BoakyeCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a flexible interface for interacting with Large Language Model ('LLM') providers including 'OpenAI', 'Azure OpenAI', 'Azure AI Foundry', 'Groq', 'Anthropic', 'DeepSeek', 'DashScope', 'Gemini', 'Grok', 'GitHub Models', and AWS Bedrock. Supports both synchronous and asynchronous chat-completion APIs, with features such as retry logic, dynamic model selection, customizable parameters, and multi-message conversation handling. Designed to streamline integration with state-of-the-art LLM services across multiple platforms.

Changes in 0.1.4

New Features

**AWS Bedrock Integration** Added first-class support for provider = "bedrock" using AWS SigV4 request signing and the Bedrock Converse API. New AWS parameters in call_llm() include aws_region, aws_access_key_id, aws_secret_access_key, and aws_session_token.
**Azure OpenAI Integration** Added provider = "azure_openai" with deployment-based endpoint routing and api-key authentication. New Azure OpenAI parameters in call_llm() include azure_endpoint and azure_api_version.
**Azure AI Foundry Integration** Added provider = "azure_foundry" with support for either api-key or bearer token authentication. New Foundry parameters in call_llm() include azure_foundry_endpoint, azure_foundry_api_version, and azure_foundry_token.
**Model Catalog Expansion** list_models() now supports both Azure providers and Bedrock. list_models("all") includes the expanded provider set.

Improvements

**Provider-specific guidance** Error messages now provide more precise credential hints for AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Foundry.

Show all changes in 0.1.4Hide the rest of the changes in 0.1.4

**Tests and documentation** Added test coverage for Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Azure AI Foundry provider paths, and updated generated Rd documentation accordingly.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("chatLLM", 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("knowusuboaky/chatLLM")

Development version from knowusuboaky/chatLLM. 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-chatllm

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-chatLLM

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-chatLLM

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘call_llm.Rd’ ‘list_models.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.4

READMEYes · 265 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 0%2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,754 · ~8/day · ~228/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31330 days

74990 days

2.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on111 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

knowusuboaky/chatllm ↗Account: knowusuboaky

13Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

32Commits

1Commit identities

32 commits · Last activity 2026-02-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-21 · 82026-07-07 · 13

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/knowusuboaky/chatllm on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-15 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-02-15

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing chatLLM adds 8 packages (6 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, curl 714 KB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

httr jsonlitestats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

aws.signature future promises later testthat roxygen2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Kwadwo Daddy Nyame Owusu Boakye

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2025)

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2025-04-24
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB

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citation("chatLLM")

Format

Owusu Boakye, K. D. N. (2026). chatLLM: A Flexible Interface for 'LLM' API Interactions (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.chatLLM

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for chatLLM version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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