The CHatGPT Assisted Debugging (CHAD) package is an attempt to make debugging in R more user-friendly. It works by submitting error and stack trace messages to OpenAI to provide human-readable error interpretation, context, and debugging advice. It depends on the cli, rlang, jsonlite and OpenAI packages as well as an active OpenAI API key.

To install the package run:

library(devtools)
install_github("n8layman/chad")

To use:

1. Add your OpenAI API key to the global environment using Sys.setenv(OPENAI_API_KEY = "sk-xxxx") where "sk-xxx" is your OpenAI API key.
2. Run rlang::global_entrace() before running the code that you suspect will generate an error.
3. After encountering an error run explain_last_error(). The ChatGPT enhanced error will be displayed as a message and returned invisibly for manual printing.