Pals are persistent LLM-driven helpers designed to help you complete common tasks in interactive data analysis, authoring, and package development. Once created, they can be attached to a keybinding and immediately get to work on repetitive but hard-to-automate tasks.
To create a pal, simply pass pal() the ID of a pre-defined pal and a
keybinding you’d like it attached to. For example, to use the cli pal:
pal("cli", "Ctrl+Shift+C")Much of the documentation in this package is aspirational and its interface is likely to change rapidly.
You can install pal like so:
pak::pak("simonpcouch/pal")Then, ensure that you have an ANTHROPIC_API_KEY set in your
.env. If you’d like to use an
LLM other than Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet to power the pal, see
?pal() to set default metadata on that model.
For example, the cli pal created above with pal("cli", "Ctrl+Shift+C")
provides an RStudio add-in “Convert to cli” registered with the
keybinding “Ctrl+Shift+C”. After selecting some code, press the keyboard
shortcut and wait a moment:
There are pre-engineered pals for all sorts of tasks in R:
Interactive Data Analysis
- …
Quarto / Authoring
"label": Label code chunks
Package development
"cli": Convert to cli"testthat": Convert to testthat 3"roxygen": Document functions with roxygen
You can also create your own pals by passing a custom prompt to
pal(role).