dsSurvival Package

Development name

dsSurvivalClient

Name of server-side packages

dsSurvival

Name of client-side packages

dsSurvivalClient

Date this information was late updated/checked

06-06-2022

Description of packages purpose

This is a standalone package for survival analysis in DataSHIELD. These are client side functions for building survival models and Cox models.

This release (v1.0.0) has Cox proportional hazards models, summaries of models, diagnostics and the ability to meta-analyze hazard ratios. There is also capability to generate forest plots of meta-analyzed hazard ratios. This release supports study-level meta-analysis.

How to contact developer institution/team/individual

Soumya Banerjee (sb2333@cam.ac.uk)
Tom R P Bishop (trpb2@cam.ac.uk)

Latest version

v1.0.0

Type distribution licence

GNU General Public License v3.0

Methods of obtaining package

CRAN Address

-

GitHub account, repository and branch/tag

What versions of R work with the package?

≥ 3.5.0

What R packages do the packages depend on?

dsSurvival

RANN,
stringr,
survival (≥ 3.2-11),
ggplot2,
dplyr,
reshape2,
dsBase,
fANCOVA

dsSurvivalClient

DSI,
fields,
metafor,
ggplot2,
gridExtra,
data.table,
dsBaseClient,
survival

Status

v1.0.0 released

Is the package tested?

-

Is the package documented?

Yes (See Additional Information)

Has the package had a disclosure audit?

-

Is the package suitable for deployment in the production environment? (Yes/No)

Yes

Does your package have features to protect the privacy of data, or does it just provide remote analysis functionality?

Yes

Additional Information

"dsSurvival: Privacy preserving survival models for federated individual patient meta-analysis in DataSHIELD", Soumya Banerjee, Ghislain N. Sofack, Thodoris Papakonstantinou, Demetris Avraam, Paul Burton, Daniela Zöller & Tom R. P. Bishop: https://bmcresnotes.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13104-022-06085-1

Tutorials and vignettes are available at: https://github.com/neelsoumya/dsSurvivalClient/blob/main/vignettes/development_plan.pdf

Bookdown: https://neelsoumya.github.io/dsSurvival_bookdown/