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crane

INFRA · APIS
Velocity0.0

Supplement to functions found in the {gtsummary} R package

insightsengineering.github.io/crane ↗

Crane is turning into the table-and-plot layer for Roche's clinical output stack.

clinical-tablesmmrmsurvival-analysisgtsummarysas-alignment
◆Current state
Crane publishes release candidates rather than finals, and the whole of 0.3.2 is carried by a single rc2 body — its two sibling tags are one-line styling commits, one of them tagged with an unsubstituted vX.Y.Z placeholder. The rc2 notes run to dozens of additions across regression tables, line plots and hierarchical rate tables.
◆Where it's heading
The package is moving from plotting helpers to a full analysis-output layer: mixed models for repeated measures, pairwise Cox results, risk-management-plan tables and adverse-event incidence rates all arrive in one cycle, and the annotation machinery underneath was rebuilt for reliable table-to-axis alignment. Defaults are being pulled toward SAS and rtables output — the log-rank test now uses survival::survdiff instead of coin, and survfit confidence intervals default to plain rather than log.
◆Prediction
Expect a 0.3.2 final close behind rc2, and the deprecated g_lineplot() family to be removed once gg_lineplot() and annotate_gg() have settled.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    MMRM, Cox and incidence-rate tables land in one release

    ⚡ SPARK

    The release that carries all of 0.3.2: new tbl_mmrm(), tbl_coxph(), tbl_rmpt() and tbl_hierarchical_incidence_rate() builders, PK and MMRM line plots, and a rebuilt annotation engine underneath them. It moves crane from plotting helpers to a general clinical-output layer.

    View source ↗
  2. 2mo ago

    Example styling and runtime cleanup

    A one-line candidate covering example styling and runtime reduction, cut a day before the rc2 that carries the release notes.

    View source ↗
  3. 2mo ago

    Placeholder release tag from the same styling commit

    The same styling commit tagged with an unsubstituted vX.Y.Z placeholder — a release-automation slip rather than a release. No user-visible change.

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