clinChat: Conversational Interfaces for Clinical Data with Large Language Models

Provides tools and Shiny applications for interacting with clinical datasets through natural language using large language models. Built on 'ellmer' and 'shinychat', it emphasizes privacy-aware workflows where data remains local and only necessary summaries or tool results are shared with the model. Includes ready-to-use chat interfaces for exploratory analysis, summarization, and querying of clinical data.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: shiny (≥ 1.8.0), ellmer (≥ 0.4.0), shinychat (≥ 0.4.0), dplyr (≥ 1.1.0), cli, rlang, glue
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, bslib
Published: 2026-11-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.clinChat (may not be active yet)
Author: Shekhar Chalwadi [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Shekhar Chalwadi <skrchalwadicg at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/shekharchalwadigrepo-hub/clinChat/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/shekharchalwadigrepo-hub/clinChat
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: clinChat results

Documentation:

Reference manual: clinChat.html , clinChat.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started with clinChat (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: clinChat_0.1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): clinChat_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): clinChat_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): clinChat_0.1.0.tgz

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