I’m pleased to share that the R Validation Hub’s efforts have been recognised in the ASA Biopharmaceutical report, Fall 2022. Within the edition you can find our paper, Risk Assessment of R Packages: Learnings and Reflections. This paper reflects on our white paper; provides an overview of our {riskmetric} package and Risk Assessment application; and summarises our 2022 case studies (which you can now find on our Case Studies page).
We have reached a major milestone. The R package riskmetric has been released and is now available on CRAN.
riskmetric is a collection of risk metrics to evaluate the quality of R packages following the framework suggested by the R validation hub (see our white paper for details).
Various quality metrics are provided which evaluate best practices of software development, code documentation, community engagement and development sustainability. This package serves as a starting point for exploring the heterogeneity of code quality, and begin a broader conversation about the validation of R packages.
The new year is starting with some good news for the R validation hub. We will be able to present our work at a number of different meetings in 2021:
National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS; April 21, 2021): NISS-Merck Meet-Up on Open Source Software in Pharma
Annual Meeting of Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI; June 21-23, 2021): Contributed session accepted
Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM; August 7-12, 2021): Topic-contributed session accepted
2020 was a busy year for the R Validation Hub. We released our white paper describing our current thinking on a risk based approach to using R for regulatory work. We started to support the implementation of the white paper with tools such as riskmetric and our risk assessment application. And we started a new sub-team with the aim of producing a follow-up white paper on testing. Throughout, we have continued to share and gain feedback on our proposed approach, presenting at User!; running a workshop at R/Pharma; and speaking at an EU Programming Heads meeting in June.
Towards the end of 2019, the R Validation Hub received an additional grant from the R Consortium to progress the next phase of our road map and produce a risk assessment app to complement the riskmetric package. In early 2020, Fission Labs were selected as our partner to build the first iteration of the application.
Fission Labs is a software product development services company delivering product life-cycle management and high-end scalable technology solutions. Our mission is to deliver complex products through simple and efficient engineering.
It’s time to bring some updates to you on the current status of the R validation hub and we are have plenty of great developments.
Fission has finished their work on the R package risk assessment app and made the source code is available on github. It is an interactive web application providing a front end for the collection of metrics for R packages via riskmetric package including visualizations and comparison metrics.
In these uncertain times, we would like to provide you with some good news and update you on the progress from the R validation hub. It has been a little while since you heard from us, but that doesn’t mean we were less active.
Communication: You may have realized that there are no further re-occurring meetings scheduled for the R validation hub since February. Following previous discussions, we are planning regular update releases via the website and newsletters instead. Meetings for the validation hub will be scheduled less frequently as needed. However, we are dependent on your input and continue to encourage volunteers to collaborate on all the different parts of the project.
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