RTutor.ai - Talk to your data via AI

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RTutor is an AI-based app that can quickly generate and test R code. Powered by API calls to OpenAI's ChatGPT or other models, RTutor translates natural languages into R scripts, which are then executed within the Shiny platform. An R Markdown source file and HTML report can be generated.

Video tutorial

Highly recommend users to watch this 10-minYouTube video.

What's new

1. GPT-4 becomes the default, providing more accurate code.
2. Comprehensive EDA reports.
3. Chat window that helps explain code, result, error messages, and statistics in general. This makes RTutor a great platform for learning R and statistics.

Installation

This repository is updated frequently, sometimes a few times a day. We suggest users reinstall everytime before using it, so that you always have the most recent version.

1. Update R and RStudio to the most recent version.
2. Install the RTutor package

if(!require("remotes")) {
install.packages("remotes")
}
library(remotes)
#voice input package heyshiny
install_github("jcrodriguez1989/heyshiny",dependencies=TRUE)
install_github("gexijin/RTutor")

3. Install other R packages. If you want to use additional R package for analyzing your data, you should install these in your computer too.

Obtain an API key from OpenAI

1. Create a personal account atOpenAI.
2. After logging in, click onPersonalfrom top left.
3. ClickManage Accountand thenBilling,where you can addPayment methodsand setUsage limits.$3-$5 per month is more than enough for most people.
4. Click onAPI keysto create a new key, which can be copied.

Use the API key with RTutor

There are several ways to do this.

• After the app is started, you can click onSettingsand paste the API key.
• You can also save this key as a text file calledapi_key.txtin the working directory.
• Finally, you can create an environment variable calledOPEN_API_KEY.Instructions forWindows, Mac,and Linux.

To start RTutor

library(RTutor)
run_app()

License

(CC BY-NC 3.0) Non-commercial use.

Examples

See thisreportgenerated by RTutor after in a typical session.

RTutor also generatescomprehensive reportsfor exploratory data analysis (EDA).