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Oncology extension package for ADaM in R Asset Library (admiral)

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The oncology ADaM helper is dissolving into admiral core, one deprecation at a time.

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◆Current state
admiralonco is the oncology companion to admiral, and it ships response-criteria recipes rather than code: RECIST, iRECIST, IMWG, GCIG and PCWG3 each arrive as a vignette plus an ADaM template. Cadence is one or two releases a year, each adding a criteria vignette. The 1.4.0 release began deprecating most of the package's own exported functions in favour of generic admiral equivalents.
◆Where it's heading
The package is converging on a documentation-and-templates model: reusable derivation logic moves upstream into admiral, and admiralonco keeps only the oncology-specific know-how. Every release since 1.0.0 has added a criteria vignette rather than new exported functions, and 1.4.1 extends that by making the template set browsable from the Get Started menu. The surface users program against is shrinking while the guidance they read is growing.
◆Prediction
Expect the deprecation cycle started in 1.4.0 to advance through its warning and error phases across the next one or two releases, with new work arriving as another response-criteria vignette rather than new functions.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Template explorer vignette added to Get Started

    A new "Explore ADaM Templates" vignette makes the package's template set browsable from the Get Started menu. It is a discoverability change, and it fits the shift toward admiralonco being read rather than called.

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  2. 6mo ago

    PSA endpoints land as function deprecation begins

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    1.4.0 adds PSA endpoints to the PCWG3 vignette and, more consequentially, starts deprecating most of the package's own functions. This is the release where the templates-and-vignettes trajectory stops being implicit and becomes the stated plan.

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  3. 11mo ago

    PCWG3 response criteria vignette added

    A vignette covering ADRS creation under PCWG3 criteria, extending the prostate-cancer coverage. Another instance of the one-criteria-per-release rhythm that defines this package.

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  4. 1y ago

    GCIG response criteria vignette added

    ADRS creation under GCIG criteria gets its own vignette. The package continues to broaden the set of response standards it documents rather than the code it exports.

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  5. 2y ago

    IMWG response criteria vignette added

    Adds a vignette for ADRS under IMWG multiple-myeloma criteria, one of the criteria sets the flexible 0.5.0 rewrite was explicitly designed to make reachable.

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  6. 2y ago

    iRECIST response criteria vignette added

    The 1.0.0 release documents ADRS creation under iRECIST, cashing in the extensibility promised by the derive_extreme_event() rewrite. It marks the point where the package settled into its vignette-per-criteria cadence.

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