mdask: Ask a language model about the bundled datasets

In rmoriedata: Integrated Datasets for the 'rmorie' Package

Ask a language model about the bundled datasets

Description

Sends a question through rmoriebricklayer::llmask(), to a language model you bring: an OpenAI-compatible endpoint of your own, a provider whose key is set (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, OpenRouter, Groq, Mistral and more: rmoriebricklayer::llmprvd()), or an Ollama server. Nothing is sent anywhere you did not set up. The model is given every function of rmoriedata and rmoriebricklayer and tools to read their help, and this package's catalogue of datasets, so it can name the tables and write the code that loads them. rmoriebricklayer::llmstat() shows which route would answer; mdllmconf() (or rmbl config setup from the shell) saves a provider's key, the route and the model.

Usage

mdask(question, model = NULL, route = NULL)

Arguments

question	Character scalar.
model	Optional model name; the route's model when NULL.
route	NULL or "auto" (the first route that is set up), "own", "ollama" or a provider id such as "anthropic" (that route only).

Value

Character scalar: the answer, or a sentence saying what went wrong or what to set up (never an error, so a script keeps going).

Examples

## Not run: 
# These need a language model: a provider's key, Ollama, or your own server.
Sys.setenv(ANTHROPIC_API_KEY = "...")
mdask("which bundled datasets cover Toronto police use-of-force?")
mdask("summarise the SIU director's-report corpus", route = "ollama",
    model = "qwen3:8b")

## End(Not run)

# With no route set up the call returns a setup hint, not an error, and
# reaches no network:
if ("llmstat" %in% getNamespaceExports("rmoriebricklayer")) {
  old <- Sys.getenv(c("OLLAMA_HOST", "MORIE_LLM_BASE_URL"), unset = NA)
  Sys.setenv(OLLAMA_HOST = "off", MORIE_LLM_BASE_URL = "off")
  if (!nrow(subset(rmoriebricklayer::llmstat(),
                   status %in% c("key set", "configured")))) {
    cat(mdask("hello"))
  }
  for (v in names(old)) {
    if (is.na(old[[v]])) Sys.unsetenv(v) else do.call(Sys.setenv, as.list(old[v]))
  }
}

rmoriedata documentation built on Nov. 12, 2026, 9:06 a.m.