Prompt LLMs with R Package Source Code Using pkglite

Illustration from Google DeepMind. Artist: Martina Stiftinger. Sometimes, large language models (LLMs) answer coding questions by making up software behaviors or APIs that don’t exist. A simple but effective strategy to minimize such hallucination problems is to feed the exact, complete source code as context in the prompt. For code organized in R packages, it is tedious to copy the file contents and construct them into prompts manually. Fortunately, you can use pkglite to automate this …