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pCR Trial-Level Surrogate Analysis Software

This is an R source package that contains the code, data, documentation, and results of the analysis reported in "Assessing pathological complete response as a trial-level surrogate endpoint for early-stage breast cancer" and supplement, by E. L. Korn, M. C. Sachs, & L. M. McShane, Ann Oncol 27: 10-15, 2016.

The package is organized as follows:

  • DESCRIPTION details the analysis and documents the dependencies.
  • The /data subdirectory contains the data files in .csv and .RData formats. The data sets are documented in the /man directory.
  • The /inst/doc directory contains the code and results of the analysis.
  • The /R directory has the R functions that were used in the analysis.
  • The /man directory contains the documentation in Rd format. View the documentation in R by typing ?pcrmeta.

Download and Install

  1. Download the source file:
    Download pcrmeta_0.4.1.tar.gz

  2. Type this command:

    install.packages("pcrmeta_0.4.1.tar.gz", type = "source", repos = NULL)
  3. Load the package by typing library(pcrmeta)
  4. View the help files by typing ?pcrmeta

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