6–9 Jul 2026
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Git-based workflow for the validation of a R package

8 Jul 2026, 16:00
2h
Poster Poster

Speaker

Laure Cougnaud (Open Analytics NV)

Description

The use of R packages in a regulated environment as in pharmaceutical companies might require a formal validation of the R package.

The Validation Hub introduces best practices and insights from pharmaceutical industries for the validation of R packages for use within the biopharmaceutical regulatory setting.

We will contribute to this effort by presenting a git-based workflow to automate the creation of validation form of a R package with the help of the pkgTesteR R package.

The validation form of any R packages containing tests created with the testthat R package and tracked with git can be created with the R package.

The user requirements, extracted from the tests descriptions, are consistently and incrementally numbered since a base (production) version of the package based on the git history, to ensure consistency of the form across versions. The review of the validation form for an updated version of the package is facilitated thanks to the identification of new tests between package versions (~ git tags).

The workflow for the creation and the use of such validation form by the package will be demonstrated on R packages developed for interactive medical oversight reporting in R.

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https://github.com/openanalytics/pkgTesteR

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Author

Laure Cougnaud (Open Analytics NV)

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