R devel - May 2011 - Table Figures and Listings

Dear All,
I am fairly new to R.  I work mainly in SAS.  Now, I know that SAS is approved 
by the FDA for submissions.  My question is, does  the FDA approve {R} for 
clinical trial  submissions.  Also has anyone ever tried to produce TFL's
using
R.  I would like to know how difficult it to produce the TFL's in R as
compared
to SAS.  I know that in SAS it is not difficult once you know what you are doing
and what is required.  My limited knowledge of R  suggests that it may be a bit 
more difficult.  Can anyone please provide me with some guidance or sample code 
for producing a standard table or listing.  A good starting point can be a 
demography table.  I can produce a demog table quite easily in SAS.  My R 
knowledge is limited that's why I have ask for some sample code.



Thanks for your help.


Orin

It is a common misperception that FDA "approves" software other than
the
software used to drive medical devices such as pacemakers.  You can use any
software to make FDA submissions.  FDA gets submissions in Minitab and
Excel, for example.  That being said, base R is CFR11 compliant (see
www.r-project.org).

We developed the rreport package for R for clinical trials reporting
including FDA submission.  rreport includes several very high-level
functions for baseline stats, labs, AEs, etc.  Once you marry R with LaTeX
the sky is the limit.  And the graphics in R can be used to convert many
tired old listings to graphics as we have done for AEs.  See
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/Rreport and
http://biostat.mc.vanderbilt.edu/wiki/pub/Main/StatGraphCourse/graphscourse.pdf

Frank

Orin Richards wrote:
> 
> Dear All,
> I am fairly new to R.  I work mainly in SAS.  Now, I know that SAS is
> approved 
> by the FDA for submissions.  My question is, does  the FDA approve {R} for 
> clinical trial  submissions.  Also has anyone ever tried to produce
TFL's
> using 
> R.  I would like to know how difficult it to produce the TFL's in R as
> compared 
> to SAS.  I know that in SAS it is not difficult once you know what you are
> doing 
> and what is required.  My limited knowledge of R  suggests that it may be
> a bit 
> more difficult.  Can anyone please provide me with some guidance or sample
> code 
> for producing a standard table or listing.  A good starting point can be a 
> demography table.  I can produce a demog table quite easily in SAS.  My R 
> knowledge is limited that's why I have ask for some sample code.
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> 
> Orin
> 
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Department of Biostatistics, Vanderbilt University
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