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Repost: The Modern R Stack for Production AI

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Python isn’t the only game in town anymore: R can interact with local and cloud LLM APIs, inspect and modify your local R environment and files, implement RAG, computer vision, NLP, evals, & much more.

There was a time in late 2023 to early 2024 when I and probably many others in the R community felt like R was falling woefully behind Python in tooling for development using AI and LLMs. This is no longer the case. The R community, and Posit in particular, have been on an absolute tear bringing new packages online to take advantage of all the capabilities that LLMs provide. Here are a few that I’ve used and others I’m keeping a close eye on as they mature.

I recently used the mall package to run a quick sentiment analysis of #Rstats posts on Bluesky:

Functions in the mall package integrate smoothly with piped workflows in dplyr. For example:

reviews |>  llm_sentiment(review)
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