rollama: An R package for using generative large language models through Ollama
This provides a tool for R users to leverage open-source LLMs locally, addressing privacy and cost concerns, but it is incremental as it primarily packages existing functionality.
The authors developed rollama, an R package that wraps the Ollama API to enable local use of generative large language models for tasks like data annotation and document embedding, offering a free, private, and reproducible alternative to OpenAI's API.
rollama is an R package that wraps the Ollama API, which allows you to run different Generative Large Language Models (GLLM) locally. The package and learning material focus on making it easy to use Ollama for annotating textual or imagine data with open-source models as well as use these models for document embedding. But users can use or extend rollama to do essentially anything else that is possible through OpenAI's API, yet more private, reproducible and for free.