Join the R Validation Hub

Get on the Mailing List

For occasional news updates, you can join our mailing list. This will enable you and your colleagues to receive notifications of key updates/software releases, blog posts and invites to all-hands Hub meetings.

Once you’ve joined, you can subscribe to your calendar to keep tabs on all R Validation Hub all-hands meetings.

Contribute to a Working Group

If you are willing and able to commit more time to the R Validation Hub’s mission, then there are several options depending on your skills and interests. If you do not feel you have the necessary technical skills to contribute then please don’t let that stop you getting in touch and sharing ideas to support the implementation of a risk-based R package assessment.

In each case you can get involed either by contacting the stream leads via the relevant GitHub page, or by sending a message to us via the contact form on our Contact Us page.

Communications Workstream

Check back later!

The communications workstream is our newest endeavor. We’ve been fortunate to have a lot of interest in these roles. Please check back later to see if the team is looking to grow.

The {riskmetric} R Package

The {riskmetric} package collects metrics that support the idea of a risk-based evaluation of R packages. The package collects and summarises various metrics and provides the means to quantify the risk of a package via a weighted risk score. It also serves as the backbone to the Risk Assessment shiny application. For more information see the package site or GitHub page.

Current Focus

The {riskmetric} team are currently looking to build features to support the idea of package cohorts. We are also looking to refine some of the meta- information collected by riskmetric to better-serve the risk assessment application. The team also have a backlog of other open issues, including additional metrics that they would like to explore.

Key Skills Required

A fundamental understanding of R packages is essential for anyone looking to support the {riskmetric} team. Package development experience is also highly beneficial.

The Risk Assessment Application

The risk assessment shiny app is an extension of the {riskmetric} R package and provides a graphical interface to the {riskmetric} functionality. It provides further exploratory capabilities in addition to the numeric metrics and improves ease-of-use for organizations to adopt a risk-based approach to R package validation. For more information see the package GitHub page.

Current Focus

In addition to working with the {riskmetric} team to better-support cohorts of packages and multiple package versions, the team are building up metric and package exploration features. This includes links to source information such as vignettes, and the ability to explore package documentation and tests.

Key Skills Required

Shiny app development experience is highly desirable; specifically, experience with shiny modules and the {golem} package would be beneficial, but is not required.

Regulatory R Package Repository

The regulatory R package repository is currently working on minimal-viable products for a number of key features. Progress is tracked on our GitHub page, where you can find information for getting involved.

How else can I help?

If you have tried to implement any of the R Validation Hub’s ideas, or used any of our tools, or even if you’ve decided to go own way, then we would love you to submit a case study describing what you have done to implement a GxP-compliant R environment to our Case Study catalogue on GitHub. Use our mailing list or GitHub issues to let us know of your intentions and we’ll work with you to upload your written case study. We’re also pleased to share case studies verbally with the wider community. You can find videos of previous presentations on our case studies page.

If you still don’t feel that you can contribute then please consider one of our partner initiatives.