Roche

Roches approach to software validation: an automated pipeline from validation to publication

Over the past year, we’ve designed a process that is meant to mimic public package publishing as closely as possible, where packages are automatically assessed by a series of checks which may prompt manual revision should the automated processing …

Working at the intersection of Biostatistics and Software Engineering in a Pharma company

Increasingly biostatisticians in pharma companies would like to use R on a daily basis, e.g. the growing number of participants in R/Pharma conferences is one metric showing this trend. As R programs replace proprietary software in this regulated …

An intro to CI/CD for R packages

Clinical Reporting in R (2 day workshop - Oct 31, Nov 1)

Creating Submission-Quality Clinical Trial Reporting Tables in R With rtables

Smoothing out our path to open source and pan-pharma code collaboration

In recent years late stage Pharma has begun to transition from a consumer of open source, and a sporadic creator, to a heavily invested collaborator on open source tools like R packages. In this short talk, James will discuss our recent focus on open …

R Consortium Pharma Working Groups Overview and Updates

In this talk, we would like to provide updates on the four biopharmaceutical industry focused R consortium cross-industry working groups. These working groups have a similar overall objective to support the use of R within the biopharmaceutical …

5 testing packages to make your package better!

In this short talk I will present few packages that can be used inside package testing framework that will help to increase overall quality of a package. The main point of focus would be static R code analysis tools such as well-known codetools …

Introducing {admiral}—The ADaM in R Asset Library

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R Package Validation at Roche

R package validation is in all our minds since the pharmaceutical industry started moving away from SAS to R for its statistical analysis and regulatory submissions. Opting for open source programming requires to revisit our way of validating code, …