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+#' Make a test request to the GPT-3 API
+#'
+#' @description
+#' `gpt3.test_request()` sends a basic [completion request](https://beta.openai.com/docs/api-reference/completions) to the Open AI GPT-3 API.
+#' @param verbose (boolean) if TRUE prints the actual prompt and GPT-3 completion of the test request (default: FALSE).
+#' @return A message of success or failure of the connection.
+#' @examples
+#' gpt3.test_request()
+#' @export
+gpt3.make_request = function(prompt_
+                             , model_ = 'text-davinci-002'
+                             , output_type_ = 'string_only'
+                             , suffix_ = NULL
+                             , max_tokens_ = 256
+                             , temperature_ = 0.9
+                             , top_p_ = 1
+                             , n_ = 1
+                             , stream_ = F
+                             , logprobs_ = NULL
+                             , echo_ = F
+                             , stop_ = NULL
+                             , presence_penalty_ = 0
+                             , frequency_penalty_ = 0
+                             , best_of_ = 1
+                             , logit_bias_ = NULL
+)
+{
+
+  parameter_list = list(prompt = prompt_
+                        , model = model_
+                        , suffix = suffix_
+                        , max_tokens = max_tokens_
+                        , temperature = temperature_
+                        , top_p = top_p_
+                        , n = n_
+                        , stream = stream_
+                        , logprobs = logprobs_
+                        , echo = echo_
+                        , stop = stop_
+                        , presence_penalty = presence_penalty_
+                        , frequency_penalty = frequency_penalty_
+                        , best_of = best_of_
+                        , logit_bias = logit_bias_
+  )
+
+  request_base = httr::POST(url = url.completions
+                      , body = parameter_list
+                      , httr::add_headers(Authorization = paste("Bearer", api_key))
+                      , encode = "json")
+
+
+  if(output_type_ == 'string_only'){
+    output = httr::content(request_base)$choices[[1]]$text
+  } else {
+    output = httr::content(request_base)
+  }
+
+  return(output)
+
+}