Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

ollamar (development version)

• Add ver() function to retrieve Ollama version.
• Update create() function.
• Add last_response() to provide more informative error messages if requests fail.

ollamar 1.2.2

CRAN release: 2025-01-08

• generate() and chat() support structured output via format parameter.
• test_connection() returns httr2::response object by default, but also support returning a logical value. #29
• chat() supports tool calling via tools parameter. Added get_tool_calls() helper function to process tools. #30
• Simplify README and add Get started vignette with more examples.

ollamar 1.2.1

CRAN release: 2024-08-25

• generate() and chat() accept multiple images as prompts/messages.
• Add functions to validate messages for chat() function: validate_message(), validate_messages().
• Add encode_images_in_messages() to encode images in messages for chat() function.
• Add create_messages() to create messages easily.
• Helper functions for managing messages accept ... parameter to pass additional options.
• Update README and docs to reflect changes.

ollamar 1.2.0

CRAN release: 2024-08-17

• All functions calling API endpoints have endpoint parameter.
• All functions calling API endpoints have ... parameter to pass additional model options to the API.
• All functions calling API endpoints have host parameter to specify the host URL. Default is NULL, which uses the default Ollama URL.
• Add req as an output format for generate() and chat().
• Add new functions for calling APIs: create(), show(), copy(), delete(), push(), embed() (supercedes embeddings()), ps().
• Add helper functions to manipulate chat/conversation history for chat() function (or other APIs like OpenAI): create_message(), append_message(), prepend_message(), delete_message(), insert_message().
• Add ohelp() function to chat with models in real-time.
• Add helper functions: model_avail(), image_encode_base64(), check_option_valid(), check_options(), search_options(), validate_options()

ollamar 1.1.1

CRAN release: 2024-05-02

Bug fixes

• Fixed invalid URLs.
• Updated title and description.

ollamar 1.0.0

• Initial CRAN submission.

New features

• Integrate R with Ollama to run language models locally on your own machine.
• Include test_connection(logical = TRUE) function to test connection to Ollama server.
• Include list_models() function to list available models.
• Include pull() function to pull a model from Ollama server.
• Include delete() function to delete a model from Ollama server.
• Include chat() function to chat with a model.
• Include generate() function to generate text from a model.
• Include embeddings() function to get embeddings from a model.
• Include resp_process() function to process httr2_response objects.