aisdk

1.4.12

Unified Interface for AI Model Providers

1packages depend

50.5Kdownloads / year

66.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yonghe XiaFirst published 2026-03-314 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A production-grade AI toolkit for R featuring a layered architecture (Specification, Utilities, Providers, Core), request interception support, robust error handling with exponential retry delays, support for multiple AI model providers ('OpenAI', 'Anthropic', etc.), local small language model inference, distributed 'MCP' ecosystem, multi-agent orchestration, progressive knowledge loading through skills, and a global skill store for sharing AI capabilities.

Install

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

install.packages("aisdk", 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("YuLab-SMU/aisdk")

Development version from YuLab-SMU/aisdk. 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-aisdk

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-aisdk

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.40

66.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-05-30
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-01
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 697 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 25%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 85%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

50.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #950 · ~138/day · ~4.2K/mo

Releases R versions

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47.9K90 days

50.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yulab-smu/aisdk

70Stars

8Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

71Commits

2Contributors

71 commits · Last activity 2026-07-16 · +2.9% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2026-02-01 · 12026-07-28 · 70

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yulab-smu/aisdk on 2026-07-26.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dev Container

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

lintr

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

29 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (16)

R6 httr2 jsonlite rlang yaml callr processx memoise digestparallelstatstoolsutilsmethodsbase64enc curl

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (18)

testthat httptest2 cli skimr evaluate ggplot2 dplyr readr readxl DBI RSQLite rstudioapi DT withr devtools fs dotenv pkgload

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

aisdk.providers

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Yonghe Xia

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yonghe Xia

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

1.4.12Latest
2026-06-02 · current release · diff ↗
1.4.11
2026-05-30 · diff ↗
1.4.10
2026-05-29 · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0
2026-03-31
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-31
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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