AIscreenR

0.4.0

AI Screening Tools in R for Systematic Reviewing

0packages depend

7.1Kdownloads / year

20.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Mikkel H. VembyeFirst published 2024-11-087 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions to conduct title and abstract screening in systematic reviews using large language models, such as the Generative Pre-trained Transformer (GPT) models from 'OpenAI' https://developers.openai.com/. These functions can enhance the quality of title and abstract screenings while reducing the total screening time significantly. In addition, the package includes tools for quality assessment of title and abstract screenings, as described in Vembye, Christensen, Mølgaard, and Schytt (2025) DOI:10.1037/met0000769.

Install

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

install.packages("AIscreenR", 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("MikkelVembye/AIscreenR")

Development version from MikkelVembye/AIscreenR. 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-aiscreenr

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

# 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-AIscreenR

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.32

20.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-03-13
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-12
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 13%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 42%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,208 · ~20/day · ~594/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mikkelvembye/aiscreenr

17Stars

5Forks

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0Open PRs

7Releases

636Commits

7Contributors

openaisystematic-reviewgptscreening

License GPL-3.0 · 636 commits · Last activity 2026-07-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-09 · 112026-07-07 · 17

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

23 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (15)

dplyr tibble httr2 stringr furrr tidyr tictoc askpass curl purrr lifecycle jsonlite htmltools tidyselect rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

future knitr rmarkdown usethis testthat withr readtext quarto

Enhances (0)

none

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Mikkel H. Vembye

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Mikkel H. Vembye

Author, Maintainer

Thomas Olsen

Author · added in 0.2.0

Package Timeline

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

0.4.0Latest
2026-07-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.2
2026-04-21 · diff ↗
0.3.1
2026-04-14 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2026-04-13 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2025-08-18 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.1.1
2024-11-26 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2024-11-08
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-11-08
Total releases: 7 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 124 KB / 7 files
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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