openai

0.4.1

R Wrapper for OpenAI API

3packages depend

21.2Kdownloads / year

11.5%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Iegor RudnytskyiFirst published 2022-06-075 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

An R wrapper of OpenAI API endpoints (see https://platform.openai.com/docs/introduction for details). This package covers Models, Completions, Chat, Edits, Images, Embeddings, Audio, Files, Fine-tunes, Moderations, and legacy Engines endpoints.

Install

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

install.packages("openai", 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("irudnyts/openai")

Development version from irudnyts/openai. 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-openai

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

# 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-openai

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-openai

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.38

11.5%

Coverage · measured lines

96%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 313 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

21.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,663 · ~58/day · ~1.8K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ irudnyts/openai

169Stars

37Forks

30Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

189Commits

1Contributors

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189 commits · Last activity 2024-11-13 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/irudnyts/openai on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (6)

assertthat glue httr jsonlite lifecycle magrittr

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none

Suggests (3)

testthat purrr covr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

mergen qtkit rapidcodeR

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Iegor Rudnytskyi

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Iegor Rudnytskyi

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.1Latest
2023-03-15 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.0
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0.3.0
2022-12-13 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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0.1.0
2022-06-07
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-06-07
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.1 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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