R Observatory: Metrics for rollama version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

rollama

0.3.1Package record

Communicate with 'Ollama' to Run Large Language Models Locally

0packages depend

10.4Kdownloads / year

14.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Johannes B. GruberCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Wraps the 'Ollama' https://ollama.com API, which can be used to communicate with generative large language models locally.

Changes in 0.3.1

query() can now batch annotate several images with the same prompt by passing images as a list (one element per query)
updated image annotation vignette to explain batch annotation
create_model() gains renderer and parser params
query()/chat() output = "data.frame"/"list" now include thinking and tool_calls from the response
think argument in query()/chat() now accepts "high"/"medium"/"low"/"max" in addition to TRUE/FALSE
fixes issue in tests
bug fixes

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("rollama", 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("JBGruber/rollama")

Development version from JBGruber/rollama. 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-rollama

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-rollama

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-rollama

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: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-30
ERROR10 OK, 3 ERROR2026-07-07
OK13 OK2026-06-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMEYes · 915 wordsVignettesYes · 7 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%4 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 45%
Documented parameters: 91%
Return-value docs: 91%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (7)

How these are measured

Downloads

10.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,721 · ~28/day · ~867/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

63030 days

1.8K90 days

10.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on214 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jbgruber/rollama ↗Account: JBGruber

127Stars

5Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

265Commits

2Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 265 commits · Last activity 2026-09-29 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.1.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.3.1 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 7
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 1192026-08-27 · 127

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/jbgruber/rollama on 2026-10-18.

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 (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-29 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-29

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rollama adds 27 packages (17 with compiled code, 9.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (11)

callr cli dplyr httr2 jsonlitemethodsprettyunits purrr rlang tibble withr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

base64enc covr glue knitr rmarkdown S7 spelling testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Johannes B. Gruber

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2024)

Maximilian Weber

Author, Contributor

Releases (8)

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0.3.1Latest
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2026-08-24 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0
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2026-03-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
create_schema, list_running_models, push_model, type_array, type_boolean, type_enum, type_integer, type_number, type_object, type_string
0.2.2
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2025-04-26 · diff ↗
0.2.1
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2025-04-24 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.0
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2024-12-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
make_query
0.1.0
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2024-05-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
check_model_installed
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.3
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2024-03-21 · diff ↗
0.0.2
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2024-01-29
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-01-29
Total releases: 8 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 3.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("rollama")

Format

Gruber, J. B., & Weber, M. (2026). rollama: Communicate with 'Ollama' to Run Large Language Models Locally (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.rollama

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rollama version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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