R Observatory: Metrics for mall version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mall

0.2.0Package record

Run Multiple Large Language Model Predictions Against a Table, or Vectors

1packages depend

8Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Edgar RuizCRAN page ↗Website ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

Run multiple 'Large Language Model' predictions against a table. The predictions run row-wise over a specified column. It works using a one-shot prompt, along with the current row's content. The prompt that is used will depend of the type of analysis needed.

Changes in 0.2.0

Adds integration with ellmer Chat objects
Returns a warning when there are over 4,096 tokens in one or many records

sent to Ollama (#43)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mall", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-mall

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-mall

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-mall

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

Additional issues

donttest

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 79 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · Quarto

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 11%1 run in a plain check · 8 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 89%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,066 · ~22/day · ~667/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

44530 days

1.2K90 days

8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on105 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

mlverse/mall ↗Organization: mlverse

130Stars

10Forks

5Open issues

2Open PRs

1Releases

649Commits

3Commit identities

data-sciencedplyrllmpolarspythonr

649 commits · Last activity 2026-05-21 · +0.8% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 34
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 1112026-10-15 · 130

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mlverse/mall on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

Quarto project

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-21 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mall adds 33 packages (20 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, ellmer 3.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (8)

cli dplyr ellmer fs glue jsonlite ollamar rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

dbplyr testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

lang

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Edgar Ruiz

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2024)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder

Releases (2)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0Latest
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2025-08-18 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.0
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2024-10-24
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-10-24
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 0.3 KB / 1 file
Download size: 54 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("mall")

Format

Ruiz, E., & Posit Software, PBC. (2025). mall: Run Multiple Large Language Model Predictions Against a Table, or Vectors (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mall

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mall version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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