MyOwnRobs

By R users for R users

A Cursor-style AI Coding Agent for RStudio

MyOwnRobs is a comprehensive AI-powered coding agent that seamlessly integrates as an RStudio extension, bringing state-of-the-art AI capabilities directly to R developers through an autonomous agent-based approach.

🚀 Features

• 🤖 Autonomous AI Agent: True coding agent that automatically selects and executes appropriate tools based on natural language requests
• 💬 Integrated Chat Interface: Familiar Shiny-based chat experience directly in RStudio
• 🔧 Comprehensive Toolkit: Complete set of development tools including file operations, code execution, and project management
• 🎯 Context Awareness: Automatically detects project structure, active files, and working directory
• ⚡ Multi-step Workflows: Handles complex tasks like “Build a Shiny app that visualizes my dataset” through intelligent tool orchestration
• 🔍 Code Analysis: Read, analyze, and understand existing code to provide contextual assistance
• ✏️ Intelligent Editing: Refactor, optimize, and enhance code based on natural language instructions

📦 Installation

Install the current released version of {myownrobs} from CRAN:

install.packages("myownrobs")

Or install the development version of {myownrobs} from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("MyOwnRobs/myownrobs")

🎯 Getting Started

1. Configure API Provider: Before using MyOwnRobs, you need to configure at least one AI provider with your API key:

# Configure your preferred AI provider(s).
myownrobs::configure_provider("google_gemini", Sys.getenv("GEMINI_API_KEY"))
myownrobs::configure_provider("anthropic", Sys.getenv("ANTHROPIC_API_KEY"))
myownrobs::configure_provider("openai", Sys.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY"))

2. Launch the Agent: After configuration, you can launch the agent by calling myownrobs::myownrobs() in the R console, or by opening the MyOwnRobs addin through the RStudio Addins menu:
   • Go to Addins > MyOwnRobs in RStudio
   • Or use the command palette: Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + P → “MyOwnRobs”
3. Start Coding: Simply describe what you want to accomplish in natural language:
   • “Create a function to clean this dataset”
   • “Build a ggplot visualization of the iris dataset”
   • “Refactor this code to be more efficient”
   • “Add error handling to my function”

🔒 Data Privacy

Note: Throughout this README, “we” refers to the package authors.

Your data privacy is important to us. Here’s a concise overview of MyOwnRobs’s data practices:

• Local Storage Only: MyOwnRobs stores your API keys locally in tools::R_user_dir("myownrobs", "config") and only stores your last active chat session to maintain continuous functionality between chat sessions and RStudio/addin restarts.

• Direct API Communication: MyOwnRobs communicates directly with your selected AI provider (Google Gemini, Anthropic, or OpenAI) using your API key. There is no intermediary MyOwnRobs server - your prompts and code go directly to the AI provider you choose.

• No MyOwnRobs Data Collection: We do not collect, store, or have access to your prompts, code, or API interactions. All communication happens directly between your RStudio session and your chosen AI provider.

Our recommendation: We recommend using MyOwnRobs with a project only if you are comfortable with submitting its contents to your selected AI model provider, as the agent may access various files for comprehensive assistance. Please review your AI provider’s data policies:

Model Provider Data Policies

• Google Gemini’s data policy
• Anthropic’s data policy
• OpenAI’s data policy

We’ve strived to keep this section brief and clear. If you have any further questions or concerns about data privacy, please don’t hesitate to submit an issue on our GitHub tracker. We will thankfully address your inquiries and update this section as needed.

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request. For major changes, please open an issue first to discuss what you would like to change.

Bug reports and new ideas or features are more than welcome at the issue tracker.

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

MyOwnRobs - Democratizing AI-assisted development for the R community 🎉