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Interactive Pharmacometric Applications Using R and the Shiny Package.

ABSTRACT: Interactive applications, developed using Shiny for the R programming language, have the potential to revolutionize the sharing and communication of pharmacometric model simulations. Shiny allows customization of the application's user-interface to provide an elegant environment for displaying user-input controls and simulation output-where the latter simultaneously updates with changing input. The flexible nature of the R language makes simulations of population variability possible thus promoting the combination of Shiny with R in model visualization.

SUBMITTER: Wojciechowski J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4394611 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Interactive Pharmacometric Applications Using R and the Shiny Package.

Wojciechowski J J Hopkins A M AM Upton R N RN

CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology 20150318 3

Interactive applications, developed using Shiny for the R programming language, have the potential to revolutionize the sharing and communication of pharmacometric model simulations. Shiny allows customization of the application's user-interface to provide an elegant environment for displaying user-input controls and simulation output-where the latter simultaneously updates with changing input. The flexible nature of the R language makes simulations of population variability possible thus promot ...[more]

PMID: 26225240

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Interactive Pharmacometric Applications Using R and the Shiny Package.

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Interactive Pharmacometric Applications Using R and the Shiny Package.

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