rollama: An R package for using generative large language models through Ollama

Abstract: rollama is an R package that wraps the Ollama API, which allows you to run different Generative LLMs (GLLM) locally. The package and learning material focus on making it easy to use Ollama for annotating textual or imagine data with open-source models as well as use these models for document embedding. But users can use or extend rollama to do essentially anything else that is possible through OpenAI's API, yet more private, reproducible and for free.