✨When LLMs guess, tools know: tool calling in R with ellmer ✨

R-Ladies Cologne are hosting another event! We are excited to have Veerle Eeftink - van Leemput with us, who will share her insights into the world of LLMs 🚀 **✨When LLMs guess, tools know: tool calling in R with ellmer ✨** Large language models are great at sounding confident… and occasionally great at being wrong. Counting things? Doing some calculations? Analysing data? Not their finest moments. In this talk, we’ll look at how R, ellmer, and a bit of tool calling can turn “educated guesses” into real, reliable, reproducible results. We’ll break down what tool calling actually is, why it matters, and how to use it to make LLMs far more useful in real applications. Expect practical examples, a peek behind the curtain of how these models work, and a few tips and tricks to work successfully with LLMs! If you’re up for joining us, RSVP here to get the access. To stay up-to-date with our future events, make sure to also follow us on [Bluesky](https://bsky.app/profile/rladies-cologne.bsky.social), [mastodon](https://fosstodon.org/@rladies_cologne) and [linkedin](https://www.linkedin.com/company/r-ladies-cologne/).