Pharmacometric analyses are integral components of the drug development process. The core of each pharmacometric analysis is a dataset. The time required to construct a pharmacometrics dataset can sometimes be higher than the effort required for the modeling per se. To simplify the process, the puzzle R package has been developed aimed at simplifying and facilitating the time consuming and error prone task of assembling pharmacometrics datasets. Puzzle consist of a series of functions written in R. These functions create, from tabulated files, datasets that are compatible with the formatting requirements of the gold standard non-linear mixed effects modeling software. With only one function, puzzle(), complex pharmacometrics databases can easily be assembled. Users are able to select from different absorption processes such as zero- and first-order, or a combination of both. Furthermore, datasets containing data from one or more analytes, and/or one or more responses, and/or time dependent and/or independent covariates, and/or urine data can be simultaneously assembled. The puzzle package is a powerful and efficient tool that helps modelers, programmers and pharmacometricians through the challenging process of assembling pharmacometrics datasets.
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Sales\*, et al., "Assembling Pharmacometric Datasets in R - The puzzle Package", The R Journal, 2021
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2021-006,
author = {Sales\*, Mario González and Barrière\*, Olivier and Tremblay, Pierre Olivier and Bonnefois, Guillaume and Desrochers, Julie and Nekka, Fahima},
title = {Assembling Pharmacometric Datasets in R - The puzzle Package},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2021},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2021-006},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2021-006},
volume = {12},
issue = {2},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {163-172}
}