v5.2.0

Breaking changes

• {esqlabsR} now requires {ospsuite} version 12.1.0 or higher to benefit from
  embedded PK-Sim core files.

• Function exportSteadyStateToXLS has been removed in favor of
  ospsuite::exportSteadyStateToXLS (#598)

• Function sensitivitySpiderPlot overhauled with new parameters. yAxisType
  to toggle between percentand absolute values. xAxisScale and
  yAxisScale to set axis scales to log or lin. yAxisFacetScales to
  choose between free and fixed scales for y-axis. Further plot
  customization options through defaultPlotConfiguration (#632).

• Function sensitivityTimeProfiles with new signature. Introduced parameters
  xAxisScale and yAxisScale to set axis scales to log or lin. More
  plot customization options through defaultPlotConfiguration as described
  in the documentation. Plots have improved color palette, scaling and legend
  colors (#669).

• Function sensitivityTimeProfiles updated. Observed data (single or
  multiple DataSet objects) can now be added to the plots and will be
  included automatically in the outputPath if the dimensions are convertible
  (#674).

• Function writeExcel() is no longer exported. (#672)

Major Changes

• New sensitivityTornadoPlot function for generating tornado plots that
  evaluate the impact of parameter changes on sensitivity analysis outcomes.
  It utilizes parameterFactor to depict the scaling effects of parameter
  modifications. Provides plot customization options through
  defaultPlotConfiguration (#652).

• New function writeParameterStructureToXLS to write a list of parameter
  paths, values, and units (e.g., imported using the readParametersFromXLS()
  function) to an Excel file. In contrast to exportParametersToXLS(), which
  writes an excel file for a list of Parameter objects, this function
  expects the parameter structure as used throughout the package.

Minor improvements and bug fixes

• Function createScenarios gets a new argument stopIfParameterNotFound. If
  TRUE (default), a scenario will not be created and an error is thrown if
  any user-defined parameter (e.g., provided in Excel files) is not found in
  the simulation. If FALSE, non-existing parameters are ignored. (#559)

• Constructor of a Scenario class gets a new argument
  stopIfParameterNotFound.

• More explicit error is shown if x/yOffsetsUnit is not set when x/yOffset is
  defined.

• Plotting functions have improved dynamic axis breaks, limits calculation, and
  labeling (#691).

esqlabsR 5.1.3

Minor improvements and bug fixes

• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment pipeline improvements (#590, #592, #601, @Felixmil)
• Several bug fixes (#581, #585, #594, #600, @PavelBal)

esqlabsR 5.1.2

Minor improvements and bug fixes

• Fixes a bug where scenario results could not be saved or loaded when
  scenario name contains a slash or a backslash (#548, @PavelBal)
• Add support for nsd argument from ospsuite::plotPopulationTimeProfile()
  aggregation methods. A new column nsd was added to the PlotConfiguration
  sheet in the example Plot.xlsx (#544, @Felixmil).
• Documentation includes PK-Sim installation instructions (#537, @Felixmil).
• Better error message if some ids are not uniques in the excel configuration files (#568, @Felixmil)
• Handles better empty rows in the excel configuration files (#569, @Felixmil)
• Cleaner NEWS file (#527).

esqlabsR 5.1.0

• New vignette/article about figure creation.
• Plots are using new color palette.
• Some modifications to plot configuration files for better plots.

BREAKING CHANGE

• When importing observed data using the default importer configuration, data
  set naming is grouped by StudyId at the first place.
  Before: {Molecule}_{Study Id}_{Subject Id}_{Species}_{Organ}_{Compartment}_{Dose}_{Route}_{Group Id}
  After: {Study Id}_{Molecule}_{Subject Id}_{Species}_{Organ}_{Compartment}_{Dose}_{Route}_{Group Id}

This will result in different data set names, and plots specifying the data sets
by the old naming will fail. For compatibility, use custom importer configuration
with the old naming:

  importerConfiguration <- ospsuite::loadDataImporterConfiguration(
    configurationFilePath = projectConfiguration$dataImporterConfigurationFile
  )
  importerConfiguration$namingPattern <- "{Molecule}_{Study Id}_{Subject Id}_{Species}_{Organ}_{Compartment}_{Dose}_{Route}_{Group Id}"

NEW FUNCTIONALITIES

• loadObservedData() gets a new argument importerConfiguration. The user can
  now provide a custom importer configuration for loading the data.

• Plots.xlsx, sheet 'plotConfiguration', now uses xValuesLimits and yValuesLimits
  to set axis limits of the plots by default. This approach filters data outside of the
  limits. See https://ggplot2.tidyverse.org/reference/coord_cartesian.html#ref-examples for
  more details. The user can still use xAxisLimits and yAxisLimits.

• Sheet 'plotConfiguration' in the Excel file 'Plots' gets additional column 'aggregation'. The value is passed to
  the function plotPopulationTimeProfile(). Supported values are listed in ospsuite::DataAggregationMethods.

  • arithmetic: population results are plotted as arithmetic mean +- arithmetic standard deviation
  • geometric: population results are plotted as geometric mean +- geometric standard deviation
  • quantiles (default): population results are plotted as quantiles defined in the column quantiles.

• Protein ontogenies can be defined for populations and individuals. To specify ontogenies for
  proteins in the simulation, list the proteins you want to define ontogenies for
  in the column 'Protein' of files 'PopulationParameters.xlsx' or 'Individuals.xlsx', separated by a ','. Speficy the ontogenies available in PK-Sim (see article https://www.open-systems-pharmacology.org/OSPSuite-R/articles/create-individual.html#adding-enzyme-ontogenies) in the column 'Ontogenies'. The number of entries in the both columns must be equal.

• Excel file 'PopulationParameters.xlsx' gets additional columns 'Protein' and 'Ontogeny'.

• Excel file 'Individuals.xlsx' gets additional columns 'Protein' and 'Ontogeny'.

MINOR CHANGES

• When a scenario fails, runScenarios() does not crash any more, but a
  warning is shown with the name of the failed scenario. The returned outputValues
  is NULL.
• Throw a warning instead of an error if a path specified in ProjectConfiguration does not exist. $outputFolder existence is not checked anymore.
• stringToNum() does not show a warning NAs introduced by coercion when a value
  cannot be converted to a numeric any more. For such values, NA is silently returned.

BUG FIXES

• exportParametersToXLS - ignore parameters with NaN #480
• Show a meaningful error when no time unit is specified for a scenario #483

esqlabsR 5.0.0

New functionalities

• New function loadObservedDataFromPKML() to load data from *.pkml located in
  the "PKML" sub-folder of the "Data" folder.

• New function createScenarios() to create Scenario objects from ScenarioConfiguration objects

• Plots can be created by calling the new function createPlotsFromExcel(). It requires as input parameters simulatedScenarios (a list of simulated scenarios as returned by runScenarios()), observedData (a list of DataSet objects) and a ProjectConfiguration object projectConfiguration.

• New function createDataCombinedFromExcel() creates DataCombined objects as
  defined in the Plots.xlsx file.

• New function saveScenarioResults() to save results produced by the runScenarios()
  function to csv files and corresponding simulations to pkml files.

• New function loadScenarioResults() to load results from csv files into a structure
  as produced by the runScenarios() function.

• New function compareSimulation() to compare two simulations for differences.

• runScenarios() also returns a Population object for population simulations.

• runScenarios() gets a new argument savePopulationToCSV, with default value FALSE.

BREAKING CHANGES

• Field setTestParameters removed from ScenarioConfiguration
• Function initializeScenario() has been removed
• Definition of simulation time in the Scenarios.xlsx file changed. The new expected format
  is a triplet of values <StartTime, EndTime, Resolution>, where Resolution is the number of
  simulated points per time unit defined in the column TimeUnit.
• Field poinstPerMinute of ScenarioConfiguration has been removed.
• Function compareSimulationParameters() has been removed and replaced by compareSimulations()
• Scenarios excel file gets additional columns SteadyStateTime, SteadyStateTimeUnit,
  PopulationId, OutputPathsIds.
• readScenarioConfigurationFromExcel() has a new signature and requires a list of
  scenarioNames and a ProjectConfiguration. The output is a named list of ScenarioConfiguration
  objects.
• Output paths are not set from global variable OutputPaths any more but
  from the respective field of ScenarioConfgiruation
• ProjectConfiguration does not have field $outputDevice any more.
• ScenarioConfiguration does not store SimulationRunOptions any more. Simulation run options must be passed to the runScenarios() function. Different run options cannot be used within one scenarios run.
• Enum GraphicsDevices has been removed.
• Function initializeSimulation() does not have arguments simulateSteadyState, steadyStateTime and simulationRunOptions any more.

MAJOR CHANGES

• New class Scenario that represents a scenario created from a ScenarioConfiguration

• ScenarioConfiguration gets a new field outputPaths which is a list of
  output paths for which the results will be calculated. If NULL (default),
  outputs as defined in the simulation are used.

• Paths of model outputs are defined in the excel file Scenarios.xlsx. In the
  sheet OutputPaths, create an entry for each output. The column OutputPath is the full
  path to the output, while OutputPathId is an identifier that conveniently allows
  to select the correct output.
  In the Scenarios sheet, enter the IDs of all paths the outputs should be generated for,
  separated by a ,, e.g. Aciclovir_PVB, Aciclovir_fat_cell.

If no outputs are specified, the outputs as defined in the simulation .pkml file
will be produced.

• ScenarioConfiguration gets a new field populationId, specifying the id of
  the population as defined in the PopulationParameters.xlsx file, sheet Demographics.
  If the field is NULL, the scenario is simulated as an individual simulation,
  otherwise a population simulation is performed.

• ScenarioConfiguration gets a new field readPopulationFromCSV. If FALSE (default),
  a new population is created from defined population demographics. If TRUE, a simulation
  will be imported from a csv sheet located in the folder Parameters/Populations and
  named as the PopulationId.

• runScenarios() supports scenario configurations for population simulations

• Target folder for saving *.pkml simulations when runScenarios(scenarioConfigurations, saveSimulationsToPKML = TRUE)
  changed from Models/Simulations/<DateSuffix> to Results/SimulationResults/<DateSuffix>.

• sensitivityCalculation() - fixed bug in wrong calculation of sensitivity values.
  Please be aware that the results produced by earlier versions are wrong.

• The workflow for running scenarios changed to:

  • Create a ProjectConfiguration with createDefaultProjectConfiguration()

  • Create ScenarioConfigurations, e.g. with readScenarioConfigurationFromExcel(scenarioNames, projectConfiguration)

  • Run scenarios with runScenarios(scenarioConfigurations)

  • Alternatively:

  • Create a ProjectConfiguration with createDefaultProjectConfiguration()

  • Create ScenarioConfigurations, e.g. with readScenarioConfigurationFromExcel(scenarioNames, projectConfiguration)

• ProjectConfiguration gets a new field plotsFile. It is the name of the excel file with plot definitions and must be located in the paramsFolder.

• When defining an individual of other species than human in ScenarioConfiguration
  and applying it to a human model, missing species-specific parameters are applied and the
  scaling works properly. Supported scalingsa are: Human to rat, human to monkey,
  human to rabbit.

• initializeSimulation() does not perform steady-state run any more. This is done as part of the runScenarios() function.

MINOR CHANGES

• Function stringToNum() gets additional arguments lloqMode and uloqMode
  that determine how entries of type "<number" and ">number" will be treated.

• readScenarioConfigurationFromExcel() will read all scenarios defined in the
  Scenarios.xlsx file if no scenario names are specified (argument scenarioNames = NULL).

• Function setApplications() is deprecated.

• Dark grey frame around legends by default.

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Release Version 4.0.128

esqlabsR 4.0.128

MAJOR CHANGES

• Three new functions to create configuration objects needed for data visualization workflows:

  • createEsqlabsPlotConfiguration()
  • createEsqlabsPlotGridConfiguration()
  • createEsqlabsExportConfiguration()

• New function getAllApplicationParameters() that returns all parameters of
  applications in a simulation

• New function exportParametersToXLS() to write parameter information into an
  excel file that can be loaded in MoBi or R using the readParametersFromXLS()
  function.

• New function writeExcel() that is a wrapper for creating a directory
  (if not present) and writing to excel file using writexl::write_xlsx().

BREAKING CHANGES

• The package requires R version >=4.1.

• The package gains new dependencies:

  • {ospsuite.parameteridentification}
  • {tlf}.

• Function getSteadyState() has been moved to package {ospsuite.parameteridentification}.

• Function loadObservedData() requires a ProjectConfiguration instead of a
  ScenarioConfiguration.

• DataMapping, DataMappingConfiguration, XYData, DataConfiguration and
  associated functions for creating standard figures are moved to esqlabsRLegacy
  package.

Release Version 3.0.89

esqlabsR 3.0.89

NEW FUNCTIONS

• To carry out and visualize sensitivity analysis:

  • sensitivityCalculation()
  • sensitivitySpiderPlot()
  • sensitivityTimeProfiles()

• Classes and functions for standard esqLABS simulation workflow:

  • ProjectConfiguration
  • ScenarioConfiguration
  • createDefaultProjectConfiguration()
  • readScenarioConfigurationFromExcel()
  • setApplications()
  • initializeScenario()
  • initializeScenario()

BREAKING CHANGES

• The package gains a new dependency: {ospsuite.utils}.

REQUIRED PACKAGES (install from CRAN):

• jsonlite,
• patchwork,
• purrr,
• R6,
• readr,
• stringr,
• tidyr,
• colorspace,
• dplyr,
• ggplot2,
• hash,
• readxl,
• shiny,
• shinyjs,
• tools,
• vctrs,
• writexl

OPTIONAL PACKAGES (required to build from source):

• knitr,
• rmarkdown,
• testthat,
• vdiffr

esqlabsR Package version 2.0.0

Maintenance and bug fixes

First GitHub release. Includes compatible packages:

• rClr 0.9.1
• ospsuite-r 10.0.72
• esqlabsR 2.0.0

You will also need to install the following packages from CRAN if you are starting with a fresh R installation:

• hash (CRAN)
• R6 (CRAN)
• readxl (CRAN)
• writexl (CRAN)
• vctrs (CRAN)
• shiny (CRAN)
• shinyjs (CRAN)

esqlabsR Package version 1.4.5

First GitHub release. Includes compatible packages:

• rClr 0.9
• ospsuite-r 10
• esqlabsR 1.4.5