Package: mcptools 0.2.0.9000

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Simon Couch

mcptools: Model Context Protocol Servers and Clients

Implements the Model Context Protocol (MCP). Users can start 'R'-based servers, serving functions as tools for large language models to call before responding to the user in MCP-compatible apps like 'Claude Desktop' and 'Claude Code', with options to run those tools inside of interactive 'R' sessions. On the other end, when 'R' is the client via the 'ellmer' package, users can register tools from third-party MCP servers to integrate additional context into chats.

Authors:Simon Couch [aut, cre], Winston Chang [aut], Charlie Gao [aut], Posit Software, PBC [cph, fnd]

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NEWS

# Install 'mcptools' in R:
install.packages('mcptools', repos = c('https://posit-dev.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/posit-dev/mcptools/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://posit-dev.github.io

On CRAN:

Conda:

mcp-server

8.98 score 137 stars 2 packages 14 scripts 1.3k downloads 3 exports 31 dependencies

Last updated from:4f91a58684. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

TargetResultTotal timeArtifact
linux-devel-x86_64OK133
source / vignettesOK220
linux-release-x86_64OK131
macos-release-arm64OK84
macos-oldrel-arm64OK103
windows-develOK81
windows-releaseOK76
windows-oldrelOK83
wasm-releaseOK158

Exports:mcp_servermcp_sessionmcp_tools

Dependencies:askpassclicorocurlellmerfastmapgluehttpuvhttr2jsonlitelaterlifecyclemagrittrnanonextopensslotelpillarpkgconfigprocessxpromisespsR6rappdirsRcpprlangS7systibbleutf8vctrswithr

R as an MCP server

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Last update: 2025-10-28
Started: 2025-06-26

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