admiralpeds

Pediatrics extension package for ADaM in R Asset Library admiral

Purpose

To provide a complementary (to admiral) toolbox that enables users to develop specifics for pediatric clinical trials.

Installation

The package is available from CRAN and can be installed with:

install.packages("admiralpeds")

To install the development version of the package from GitHub run:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("pharmaverse/admiralpeds")

Dependencies

The latest version of the package works with the latest versions of the packages stated in DESCRIPTION.

If a previous version of the package should be used, it is recommended to use latest version of the dependencies at the point of time when the previous version of {admiralpeds} was released.

Scope

  • Build a toolbox of re-usable functions and utilities to create pediatrics-specific ADaM datasets in R in a modular manner.
  • All functions are created based upon the ADaM Implementation Guide and aim to facilitate the programming of ADaM dataset standards.
  • Initially the package will focus on Anthropometric indicators (i.e. child growth/development charts).

Expectations

admiralpeds is expected to complement admiral and provide functions to help with the creation of analyses required for pediatric trial ADaMs.

References and Documentation

R Versions

Here’s a summary of our strategy for this package related to R versions:

  • R versions for developers and users will follow the same as admiral core package.
  • For development the main branch of admiral core is used as a dependency. For releasing a new admiralpeds version it must run using the latest released admiral core version.

Contact

We use the following for support and communications between user and developer community:

  • Slack - for informal discussions, Q&A and building our user community. If you don’t have access, use this link to join the pharmaverse Slack workspace
  • GitHub Issues - for direct feedback, enhancement requests or raising bugs