R Observatory: Metrics for chatRater version 1.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

chatRater

1.3.1

A Tool for Rating Text/Image/Audio Stimuli via 'LLMs'

0packages depend

5.6Kdownloads / year

22.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Shiyang ZhengFirst published 2025-02-175 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Evaluates stimuli using Large Language Models. Supports multiple LLM providers: 'OpenAI', 'Anthropic', 'Ollama', 'LM Studio', 'DeepSeek', 'Groq', 'Mistral', and 'OpenAI-compatible' endpoints. Stimuli: plain text, local image/audio files, or image URLs. Audio is transcribed via 'OpenAI Whisper' before rating. Supports numeric, text, and raw return types.

Install

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

install.packages("chatRater", 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("ShiyangZheng/chatRater")

Development version from ShiyangZheng/chatRater. 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-chatrater

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-chatRater

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-chatRater

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 57 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.07

22.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 442 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 67%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,413 · ~15/day · ~464/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

19730 days

1.1K90 days

5.6K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ shiyangzheng/chatrater

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

19Commits

2Contributors

chatgptdeepseektext-ratingimage-rating-toolaudio-processingaudio-transcriptionclaudeollama

19 commits · Last activity 2026-06-25

Stars over time

2025-02-22 · 22026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/shiyangzheng/chatrater on 2026-08-16.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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 (5)

base64enctoolshttr2 curl jsonlite

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

llmcoder testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Shiyang Zheng

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Shiyang Zheng

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

1.3.1Latest
2026-06-25 · current release · diff ↗
1.3.0
2026-05-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.0
2025-08-18 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.1.0
2025-03-03 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2025-02-17
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2025-02-17
Total releases: 5 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 21 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("chatRater")

Format

Zheng, S. (2026). chatRater: A Tool for Rating Text/Image/Audio Stimuli via 'LLMs' (Version 1.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.chatRater

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for chatRater version 1.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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