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kernelshap makes permutation SHAP practical past eight features, then fixes the kernel weights it had wrong.
A side-by-side editorial comparison of clinify and monitOS — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.
Clinical-table typesetting for R, closing the gap between R output and regulatory Word documents
clinify renders clinical trial tables into Word documents through {officer}, aiming at the layout conventions regulatory submissions expect. 0.4.0 is the current CRAN release and folds in an unreleased 0.3.1. The recent work is almost entirely about header and spacing control: which adjacent header cells merge, where the rule under a spanner starts and stops, and how much vertical space sits above, below and between header rows and the table body.
monitOS relicenses to MIT, the clearest signal in a sparse Novartis release feed.
monitOS is Novartis's R package for monitoring overall survival in clinical trials, with an accompanying Shiny app. The 0.1.6 release changes the licence to MIT, fixes a shiny import problem and an infinite-value bug in the app, and adds spell checking plus issue-tracker and website links. The prior release carries no notes at all beyond a link to the commit history.
clinify renders clinical trial tables into Word documents through {officer}, aiming at the layout conventions regulatory submissions expect. 0.4.0 is the current CRAN release and folds in an unreleased 0.3.1. The recent work is almost entirely about header and spacing control: which adjacent header cells merge, where the rule under a spanner starts and stops, and how much vertical space sits above, below and between header rows and the table body.
The package is moving from producing a correct table toward producing one that survives an organisation's house style. 0.4.0's additions are all written to hold under a customised `clinify_table_default()` — `clin_spanner_rule()` draws after the default styling function so it persists when a house style clears the borders it started from, and takes an `officer::fp_border()` or `FALSE` so a style can decline the rule entirely. The earlier 0.3.0 line did the structural work, introducing `clindoc()` document objects that accept multiple tables plus automatic pagination.
Expect continued refinement of layout primitives that follow the table rather than fixed column numbers, since both new 0.4.0 functions were built specifically to track spanners and headers as a layout changes. The entries do not indicate a move beyond Word output.
monitOS is Novartis's R package for monitoring overall survival in clinical trials, with an accompanying Shiny app. The 0.1.6 release changes the licence to MIT, fixes a shiny import problem and an infinite-value bug in the app, and adds spell checking plus issue-tracker and website links. The prior release carries no notes at all beyond a link to the commit history.
For a package published by a pharmaceutical sponsor, the licence change is the substantive item — MIT removes friction for reuse outside Novartis, and the added issue link and website point the same way, toward outside users. Everything else is packaging hygiene. At 0.1.6 with two releases nine months apart, the statistical methodology looks settled while the distribution around it is being tidied.
The open-sourcing signals suggest the next release will respond to outside issue reports; the entries give no indication of methodology changes.
Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either clinify or monitOS.
kernelshap makes permutation SHAP practical past eight features, then fixes the kernel weights it had wrong.
filtro moves to S7 and multiplies its feature-scoring methods in a single release.
modeltime.resample exists to keep backtesting working as tidymodels shifts underneath it.
modeltime.ensemble wakes after four years, and the work is all tune 2.0 compatibility.
shapviz refines its SHAP plots release by release while chasing ggplot2's moving target.
hstats settled into maintenance after its 1.0 restructuring, with model coverage the only thing still growing.
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Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.
They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. clinify is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.
Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. clinify is currently shipping more aggressively (velocity 2.5 vs 0.0), with 0 editorial sparks in the last 30 days against 0. For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.
Top clinify alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "clinify alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/clinify-r for the full list with editorial commentary on each.
Top monitOS alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "monitOS alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/monitos for the full list with editorial commentary on each.