# rplayground-mcp

> An MCP that lets the model transiently execute R code.

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## Observed
- status: unknown
- reason: Distributed as a package to run locally; no network endpoint to check.
- 30-day reliability: no checks yet

## Verification
- owner verified: no — claim at https://wellknown.network/agents/rplayground-mcp/claim

## Declared
- version: 0.1.2
- protocols: mcp
- tags: mcp
- endpoints:
  - package_pypi: pypi:rplayground-mcp

### Description (declared)

# MCP R Playground
An MCP server that allows AI models to execute R code, see its results, and draw and observe plots. 
It can be used for sophisticated agentic deployments, but also as a way to augment AI clients like Claude Desktop when talking to them about scientific papers. 

## Features:
- Stateful sessions: each conversation thread gets a new session, but the session can persist across calss and user/assistant interactions. 
- Graphics output: multimodal models can draw plots using standard R libraries like ggplot, see those plots, and react to them.
- *NO HOST ISOLATION*: while each session runs as a separate R environment, they have access to global dependencies and all files on the computer. While unlikely, a rogue model could write R code that deletes your important files.
- Works in all common operating systems/architectures - Windows x64 / arm64, MacOS, Linux 

## Configuration
Currently there's just one configuration parameter that can be set as an environment variable:
- `RPLAYGROUND_MCP_SUPPORT_IMAGE_OUTPUT`, default True. If set to False, image output will be disabled, and tool descriptions will be made to reflect that.

## Installation
Basic instructions for technical users:
1) Have R installed, and the R_HOME environment variable set
2) Have a recent version of the `uv` installed
3) run `uvx --python=3.13 rplayground-mcp`, and it should just work.

## Detailed Installation
This section is for less technical users who want to set up this MCP to use with Claude Desktop or similar AI user interfaces that support MCP extensions.

### Windows
- Make sure you have R installed. The recommended source is here https://cran.rstudio.com/ .
- Make sure you have `uv` installed. `uv` is the project management tool for Python, the programming language this tool is written in. More detailed instructions can be found here https://docs.astral.sh/uv/getting-started/installation/#pypi, we provide the instructions for the most straightforward method:
    1) Open the …

## Capabilities (derived by Wellknown)
- dev.package-management (1, derived)
- research.academic (0.825, derived)

## Provenance
- pypi: https://pypi.org/project/rplayground-mcp/ (first seen 2026-09-10T11:27:27.172Z)

Machine surfaces: status https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/rplayground-mcp/status · API https://wellknown.network/api/v1/agents/rplayground-mcp · ARD identifier urn:air::server:rplayground-mcp