R Observatory: Metrics for llmshieldr version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

llmshieldr

0.1.0Package record

Safety Guardrails for Large Language Model Workflows

0packages depend

1.6Kdownloads / year

75.6%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Indraneel ChakrabortyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A model-agnostic safety layer for developers building with large language model (LLM) applications. Maps starter controls to the Open Worldwide Application Security Project Top 10 for Large Language Model Applications 2025 risk categories https://genai.owasp.org/llm-top-10/ via a modular rule engine. Supports regular-expression rules, lightweight natural language processing (NLP) intent checks, optional scanners, and semantic large language model reviewer checks on prompts, conversations, retrieved context, tool inputs and outputs, streaming chunks, and model outputs. Supports workflows with the 'Ollama' local web service https://ollama.com/ via 'ellmer', remote reviewer endpoints, and other chat interfaces callable from 'R'. Intended as an experimental guardrail layer that teams should evaluate against their own workflows before relying on it in production.

Install

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

install.packages("llmshieldr", 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("ineelhere/llmshieldr")

Development version from ineelhere/llmshieldr. 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-llmshieldr

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-llmshieldr

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-llmshieldr

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: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-05-29

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.0

READMEYes · 926 wordsVignettesYes · 11 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 41 (5 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 85%29 run in a plain check · 5 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (11)

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Threat Model HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

1.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,744 · ~4/day · ~136/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37530 days

92590 days

1.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on26 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

ineelhere/llmshieldr ↗Account: ineelhere

2Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

45Commits

1Commit identities

ai-safetyai-toolsellmergenerative-aiguardrailsllm-securityllmopsollama

License file reads as Apache-2.0 · 45 commits · Last activity 2026-05-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2026-05-19 · 12026-07-07 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ineelhere/llmshieldr on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux and Windows

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

renv

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing llmshieldr adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (5)

jsonlite cli rlang digest stringi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (16)

ellmer httr2 processx filelock htmltools covr lintr plumber shiny testthat knitr rmarkdown withr dplyr tokenizers SnowballC

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Indraneel Chakraborty

Releases (1)

0.1.0Latest
record
2026-05-28 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-28
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: Apache License (>= 2)
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("llmshieldr")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for llmshieldr version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-22, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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