Interpreting complicated code with ChatGPT assistance

ChatGPT can be used to interpret R code by leveraging its natural language processing capabilities and its understanding of the R programming language. It’s important to note that while ChatGPT can assist in interpreting and explaining R code, it’s still just an AI language model and may not have knowledge of the most recent updates or specific domain-specific intricacies. Double-checking information with official documentation and consulting experienced developers or experts is always necessary. It is massively useful for simplifying and getting a good first-level understanding in most cases.

In this recipe, we’ll look at how to take an arbitrary bit of complex code and explain it in plain English.

Getting ready

We need some code to interpret – we’ll use a function from the besthr Github hosted package at https://github.com/TeamMacLean/besthr/blob/master/R/functions.R and an account with...