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Short, fun and user-driven content around the pharmaverse.

logrx 0.4.0: logs for your R programs

Logging
Technical

Are you in need of a log to ensure traceability and reproducibility for your Clinical Reporting R programs?

May 19, 2025
Ben Straub

Welcome, Ashley Tarasiewicz

Community

Ashley Tarasiewicz joins the pharmaverse council as the Atorus Council representative.

Apr 16, 2025
Mike Stackhouse

Code collaboration in NEST

TLG
Community

Announcement on code collaboration for the NEST framework between Roche and Clinical & Statistical Programming, Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicine

Apr 8, 2025
Ilse Augustyns, Nicholas Masel, Tad Lewandowski, Gabriel Becker, Clinical & Statistical Programming, IDAR, Johnson & Johnson, Innovative Medicine

Novartis joins the Pharmaverse Council!

Community

Pharmaverse Council membership update

Mar 14, 2025
Damian Rodziewicz

Automatic slide generation with autoslider.core

TLG

{autoslider.core} is a newly open-sourced package for automatically creating standard study outputs and adding them to PowerPoint slides.

Mar 14, 2025
Stefan P. Thoma, Joe Zhu

Diversity Champion Updates

Community
DEI

Council company new DEI requirements and other news!

Mar 13, 2025
Laura Needleman

teal 0.16.0 is released!

Shiny

Announcing the release of teal v0.16.0!

Mar 3, 2025
Dony Unardi

Working with Clinical Trial Data? There’s a Pharmaverse Package for That

Technical
Community

Looking for R packages to manage clinical trial data? Pharmaverse has tools for every stage from data collection to submission!

Feb 28, 2025
Gift Kenneth, Sunil Gupta, APPSILON

Council Member updates

Community

Notification of latest council member renewals and welcoming Julia!

Feb 28, 2025
pharmaverse council

Collecting all the data!

SDTM
ADaM
Community
Technical

Where is all the data? An intermittent attempt to continuously compile, collate, consolidate, and curate publicly available CDISC data useful for Clinical Reporting in R

Feb 17, 2025
Ben Straub

Hello admiralmetabolic!

ADaM
Community
Technical

We are happy to announce the release of the newest member of the {admiral} family - {admiralmetabolic}!

Jan 21, 2025
Anders Askeland, Edoardo Mancini

{admiral} 1.2 is here!

ADaM
Community
Technical

What to expect from the 1.2 release of {admiral}? New functions, crisper documentation, upcoming plans and more!

Jan 17, 2025
Ben Straub, Edoardo Mancini

A collaborative triumph: Re-using test data between the NEST and admiral teams

ADaM
TLG
Community

This post describes one of the first joint efforts between the NEST and admiral teams, where test data from the pharmaverseadam package was used within the NEST framework.

Jan 15, 2025
Joe Zhu, Edoardo Mancini

Creating a better universe with dverse

Technical

How to create a global search across an entire collection of R packages: A use case for the toy ‘admiralverse’

Dec 13, 2024
Mauro Lepore

Introducing the aNCA Package for Automated Non-Compartmental Analysis

Shiny
ADaM
TLG
Submissions

A Roche x Appsilon x Human Predictions Collaboration

Dec 2, 2024
Ercan Suekuer, Jana Spinner, Gerardo R

How I Rebuilt a Lost ECG Data Script in R

SDTM
Technical

During my Data Science placement, I faced the challenge of recreating an ECG dataset for the {pharmaversesdtm} project after the original R script was lost. I explored the existing data, identified key parameters, and experimented with R packages to replicate the dataset structure and ensure SDTM compliance. Despite challenges with ensuring accurate ECG measurements, I eventually regenerated the dataset, learning valuable lessons in problem-solving and resilience.

Oct 31, 2024
Vladyslav Shuliar

Introducing sdtm.oak

SDTM

An EDC & Data Standards agnostic solution that enables the pharmaceutical programming community to develop SDTM datasets in R

Oct 24, 2024
Rammprasad Ganapathy

The Tension of High-Performance Computing: Reproducibility vs. Parallelization

Submissions
Technical

Discover how to manage parallel processing and ensure reproducibility in drug development using the {mirai} package and other HPC tools.

Oct 16, 2024
Alexandros Kouretsis, APPSILON

roxy.shinylive - shinylive applications in roxygen documentation

Shiny
Technical

Introducing a roxy.shinylive - a new tool for Shiny package developers

Oct 11, 2024
Pawel Rucki

Undergraduate University Statistics Report using pharmaverseadam data

ADaM
Community

A short journal highlighting how I was able to use {pharmaverseadam} for my university work

Sep 16, 2024
Syon Parashar

Writing my first custom CICD action for the pharmaverseblog

Technical

I recently wrote my first custom CICD pipeline for the pharmaverseblog, in an effort to police the use of post tags within the blog. These are my learnings and experiences!

Sep 11, 2024
Edoardo Mancini

Meet our Diversity Champion – Laura Needleman

Community

On behalf of the pharmaverse council, we’d like to introduce you to Laura Needleman – an active member of our community who has volunteered to support us as a champion around DE&I.

Sep 3, 2024
Laura Needleman

teal and Posit Shiny Contest 2024

Shiny
Community

Introducing the {teal} category in the Post Shiny Contest 2024 and informing users on resources to make their teal app for the submission.

Aug 20, 2024
Dony Unardi, Pawel Rucki

Exploring the Top 5 pharmaverse Packages

Technical
Community
Shiny

This blog explores the top 5 popular pharmaverse packages for clinical reporting featuring {rtables}, {admiral}, {teal}, {riskmetric}, and {tidyCDISC} for improving data analysis and to ensure compliance.

Aug 15, 2024
Gift Kenneth, APPSILON

Working Groups Updates

Community

An update from pharmaverse council around how packages will get included in pharmaverse in future.

Jul 24, 2024
pharmaverse council

Simplifying Clinical Data Dashboards with {teal} and {pharmaverseadam}

Technical
Shiny
Community

Learn how to quickly develop interactive and reproducible clinical data dashboards using {teal} and {pharmaverseadam}.

Jul 22, 2024
Pavel Demin, Dror Berel, APPSILON

Unix versus SAS Time

Technical

This blog explores SAS and R date handling differences, focusing on epoch discrepancies and data types, and provides key tips for accurate date conversions to prevent a 10-year date shift.

Jul 16, 2024
Céline Piraux

Introducing a new Coursera course for hands-on clinical data science using R.

Community

Releasing our second (hands-on) Coursera course, aimed at enhancing the skills of data scientists and shedding light on the impact of R open-source software within the industry.

Jul 3, 2024
Joel Laxamana, Stefan Thoma

{admiral} 1.1.1 is here!

ADaM

Get to know what awaits you with the new release of the {admiral} package, including enhanced error messaging, improved documentation and much more!

Jun 20, 2024
Edoardo Mancini, Ben Straub

New {admiral} extension packages: {admiralpeds} & more coming soon!

Metadata
ADaM
Community

We are very excited to announce that new extension packages are expected very soon in the {admiral} family: {admiralpeds}, a pediatrics extension, and another extension (name TBC) for obesity in clinical trials

Jun 17, 2024
Fanny Gautier, Lina Patil

Diversity & Inclusion in pharmaverse

Community

An update from pharmaverse council regarding diversity and inclusion within our community.

May 31, 2024
pharmaverse council

Our experience as new admiral developers, coming from a CRO

Community
Conferences

As the first CRO having joined the {admiral} family, we are very excited to share with you our first steps and thoughts in this new adventure

May 29, 2024
Fanny Gautier, Lina Patil

TLG Catalog 🤝 WebR

TLG
Shiny

Introducing WebR to TLG Catalog: A Game Changer for Interactive Learning

May 8, 2024
Pawel Rucki

De-Mystifying R Programming in Clinical Trials

Community

A blog highlighting the benefits/limitations of using R Programming and using the right tools to create value

May 2, 2024
Venkatesan Balu

Appsilon and Sanofi join the pharmaverse council!

Community

Updates to the pharmaverse council

Apr 29, 2024
Ari Siggaard Knoph

teal.modules.clinical v0.9.0 is now on CRAN!

TLG
Shiny

This package release now completes the suite of {teal} family of packages recently released to CRAN.

Apr 8, 2024
Leena Khatri

xportr 0.4.0

ADaM
SDTM

xportr is a tool tailor-made for clinical programmers, enabling them to generate CDISC-compliant XPT files for SDTM and/or ADaM. It streamlines the preparation on xpt files, ensuring they are primed for submission to clinical data validation applications or regulatory agencies.

Mar 29, 2024
Sadchla Mascary

Tips for First Time Contributors

Community

Open source can be daunting the first time you dive in - this blog will help you get started!

Mar 11, 2024
Ross Farrugia

Inside the pharmaverse

Community

A short blog to help the Pharmaverse community understand how Pharmaverse is governed.

Mar 4, 2024
Michael Rimler

Rhino: A Step Forward in Validating Shiny Apps

Submissions
Community

In this post, we explore the importance of validation in the pharmaceutical industry and how Rhino framework aids in ensuring reliability and accuracy of Shiny applications.

Mar 1, 2024
Kamil Żyła, Ege Can Taşlıçukur, APPSILON

Filter out the noise!

ADaM
Technical

A brief exposition of the filter_* functions in {admiral} - what they do and how to use them.

Feb 26, 2024
Edoardo Mancini

ISCR 17th Annual Conference 2024

Conferences

This blog highlights my experience of presenting at Indian Society for Clinical Research (ISCR) 17th Annual Conference 2024.

Feb 26, 2024
Pooja Kumari

teal is now available on CRAN 🎉

TLG
Shiny

Announcing the release of teal v0.15.0 on CRAN!

Feb 14, 2024
Dony Unardi

Testing Containers and WebAssembly in Submissions to the FDA

Submissions

In this post, we dig into the ongoing efforts undertaken to evaluate new technologies for submissions to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). These transformative approaches, including WebAssembly and containers, hold immense potential to transform the regulatory landscape and streamline the submission process.

Feb 1, 2024
André Veríssimo, Tymoteusz Makowski, Pedro Silva, Vedha Viyash, APPSILON

PK Examples

Community
ADaM
Metadata

Explore PK ADaM Examples on Pharmaverse Examples Page

Jan 26, 2024
Jeff Dickinson

admiral 1.0.0

ADaM

1.0.0 brings a commitment to stability, new features, a few bug fixes, argument alignment and onboarding resources!

Jan 4, 2024
Ben Straub

End of Year Update from the pharmaverse Council

Community

2023 Was a big year - let’s talk about it!

Jan 4, 2024
Mike Stackhouse

Believe in a higher order!

ADaM
Technical

A brief foray into the higher order functions in the {admiral} package.

Nov 27, 2023
Edoardo Mancini

Floating point

ADaM
Technical

The untold story of how admiral deals with floating points.

Oct 30, 2023
Stefan Thoma

Reproducing the R Submissions Pilot 2 Shiny Application using Rhino

Submissions
Community

A short blog post about a Rhino pilot submission.

Oct 10, 2023
Ismael Rodriguez, Vedha Viyash, André Veríssimo, APPSILON

Date/Time Functions and Imputation in {admiral}

ADaM
Technical

Dates, times and imputation can be a frustrating facet of any programming language. Here’s how {admiral} makes all of this easy!

Sep 26, 2023
Edoardo Mancini

The pharmaverse (hi)story

Community
The pharmaverse: from motivation to present
Aug 30, 2023
Nicholas Eugenio

Rounding

Technical

Exploration of some commonly used rounding methods and their corresponding functions in SAS and R, with a focus on ‘round half up’ and reliable solutions for numerical precision challenges.

Aug 22, 2023
Kangjie Zhang

It’s all relative? - Calculating Relative Days using admiral

ADaM
Creating --DY variables for your ADaMs is super easy using derive_vars_dy() from the admiral package.
Aug 8, 2023
Ben Straub

Cross-Industry Open Source Package Development

Community
Conferences
ADaM

This post is based on a talk given at the regional useR! conference on July 21st 2023 in Basel.

Jul 25, 2023
Stefan Thoma

How to use Code Sections

ADaM
Technical

Code sections - are you using them right?

Jul 14, 2023
Edoardo Mancini

Blanks and NAs

ADaM
Technical

Reading SAS datasets into R. The data is not always as it seems!

Jul 10, 2023
Ben Straub

cardinal

TLG

The {cardinal} initiative is an industry collaborative effort under pharmaversewith the aspiration of building and open-sourcing a comprehensive catalog of harmonized TLGs for clinical study reporting.

Jul 9, 2023
Vincent Shen

Hello pharmaverse

Community

Short, fun and user-driven content around the pharmaverse.

Jun 28, 2023
Ben Straub

Derive a new parameter computed from the value of other parameters

ADaM

Use admiral::derive_param_computed() like a calculator to derive new parameters/rows based on existing ones

Jun 27, 2023
Kangjie Zhang

Admiral Hackathon 2023 Revisited

Community
ADaM

Let’s have a look at the Admiral Hackathon 2023 together.

Jun 27, 2023
Stefan Thoma

Hackathon Feedback Application

Shiny
Community
ADaM

Going through the process of creating a shiny app for the admiral hackathon. The shiny app allows users to check their solutions autonomously, gives feedback, and rates their results.

Jun 27, 2023
Stefan Thoma
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