Atorus Research announced their first R package publication to the open source community and released a new R package named pharmaRTF. During the development process to replicate the CDISC pilot submission package, it was discovered that an R package would need to be created in order to support the traditional appearance and style of outputs in RTF format.
“When I began the programming process, I realized that there was a need for an R package to replicate the look and feel of the CDISC pilot submission package,” said Mike Stackhouse, Chief Innovation Officer at Atorus Research.
To overcome the gaps, including document headers, footers, and general document properties of the output, the package was developed in R, a free and open source programming language. Atorus has made a concerted effort to place this project into the public domain to benefit both pharmaceutical companies and CROs.
“We believe that the first step needed for industry acceptance of open source coding is to demonstrate duplication of current commercial output,” Stackhouse said.
The package is fully documented, validated, and publicly available to the open source community here: https://github.com/atorus-research/.
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