Admiral Extension for Ophthalmology

Purpose

To provide a complementary (to {admiral}) toolbox that enables users to develop ophthalmology disease area datasets and endpoints.

Installation

To install the latest development version of the package directly from GitHub use the following code:

if (!requireNamespace("remotes", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("remotes")
}
remotes::install_github("pharmaverse/admiralophtha", ref = "devel")

Scope

• Build a toolbox of re-usable functions and utilities to create Ophthalmology-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.

References and Documentation

• Please refer to the {admiral} 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 devel branch of {admiral} core is used as a dependency. For releasing a new {admiralophtha} version it must run using the latest released {admiral} core version, i.e., main branch of {admiral} core.

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

Release Schedule

• The first release (v. 0.1.0) came out on 13th March 2023.
• The second release (v. 0.2.0) came out on 12th June 2023.
• The third release (v. 0.3.0) came out on 18th September 2023.
• We are planning for a fourth release (v.1.0) on December 11th 2023. The objective of the 1.0 release of {admiralophtha} is to provide a package that is mature enough to be used as it is as part of the ADaM work on any ophthalmology study.