SACTanalyseR

Introduction

When I wrote this paper^[1] using a collection of CSV files that had been previously submitted to the National Cancer Registration and Analysis Service I needed t write a few functions to handle the files. Things ranging from merging the CSV files to factorizing data and updating dates of death.

The dataset is in two formats - version 2 and version 3, and is fully described in published literature^[2].

R Package

I proposed to the NHS R Community that we could develop this set of functions into an R package, which is now released in an alpha version at: https://gitlab.com/polc1410/sactanalyser

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References

1. Wadd, N., Peedell, C., & Polwart, C. (2022). Real-World Assessment of Cancer Drugs Using Local Data Uploaded to the Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy Dataset in England. Clinical Oncology, 34(8), 497–507. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clon.2022.04.012

2. Bright, C. J., Lawton, S., Benson, S., Bomb, M., Dodwell, D., Henson, K. E., McPhail, S., Miller, L., Rashbass, J., Turnbull, A., & Smittenaar, R. (2019). Data Resource Profile: The Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy (SACT) dataset. International Journal of Epidemiology, 49(1), 15–15l. https://doi.org/10.1093/ije/dyz137

Copyright

Calum Polwart and others 2020 - 2024. See Reuse section for conditions on reproduction.