AMR 0.5.0.90xx Unreleased

Note: this is the development version, which will eventually be released as AMR 0.6.0.

New

  • BREAKING: removed deprecated functions, parameters and references to ‘bactid’. Use as.mo to identify an MO code.
  • New website: https://msberends.gitlab.io/AMR (built with the great pkgdown)
    • Contains the complete manual of this package and all of its functions with an explanation of their parameters
  • Support for dplyr version 0.8.0
  • Function mo_failures to review values that could not be coerced to a valid MO code, using as.mo. This latter function will now only show a maximum of 25 uncoerced values.
  • Function mo_renamed to get a list of all returned values from as.mo that have had taxonomic renaming
  • Function age to calculate the (patients) age in years
  • Function age_groups to split ages into custom or predefined groups (like children or elderly). This allows for easier demographic antimicrobial resistance analysis per age group.
  • Functions filter_first_isolate and filter_first_weighted_isolate() to shorten and fasten filtering on data sets with antimicrobial results, e.g.:

    is equal to:

Changed

  • Improvements for as.mo:
    • Finds better results when input is in other languages
    • Better handling for subspecies
    • Better handling for Salmonellae
    • There will be looked for uncertain results at default - these results will be returned with an informative warning
    • Manual now contains more info about the algorithms
    • Progress bar will be shown when it takes more than 3 seconds to get results
    • Support for formatted console text
  • Function first_isolate:
    • Will now use a column named like “patid” for the patient ID (parameter col_patientid), when this parameter was left blank
    • Will now use a column named like “key(…)ab” or “key(…)antibiotics” for the key antibiotics (parameter col_keyantibiotics), when this parameter was left blank
    • Removed parameter output_logical, the function will now always return a logical value
    • Renamed parameter filter_specimen to specimen_group, although using filter_specimen will still work
  • A note to the manual pages of the portion functions, that low counts can influence the outcome and that the portion functions may camouflage this, since they only return the portion (albeit being dependent on the minimum parameter)
  • Function mo_taxonomy now contains the kingdom too
  • Function first_isolate will now use a column named like “patid” for the patient ID, when this parameter was left blank
  • Reduce false positives for is.rsi.eligible
  • Summaries of class mo will now return the top 3 and the unique count, e.g. using summary(mo)
  • Small text updates to summaries of class rsi and mic
  • Frequency tables (freq function):
    • Header info is now available as a list, with the header function
    • Added header info for class mo to show unique count of families, genera and species
    • Now honours the decimal.mark setting, which just like format defaults to getOption("OutDec")
    • The new big.mark parameter will at default be "," when decimal.mark = "." and "." otherwise
    • Fix for header text where all observations are NA
    • New parameter droplevels to exclude empty factor levels when input is a factor
    • Factor levels will be in header when present in input data
  • Function scale_y_percent now contains the limits parameter
  • Automatic parameter filling for mdro, key_antibiotics and eucast_rules
  • Updated examples for resistance prediction (resistance_predict function)
  • Fix for as.mic to support more values ending in (several) zeroes

Other

  • Updated licence text to emphasise GPL 2.0 and that this is an R package.

AMR 0.5.0 2018-11-30

New

  • Repository moved to GitLab: https://gitlab.com/msberends/AMR
  • Function count_all to get all available isolates (that like all portion_* and count_* functions also supports summarise and group_by), the old n_rsi is now an alias of count_all
  • Function get_locale to determine language for language-dependent output for some mo_* functions. This is now the default value for their language parameter, by which the system language will be used at default.
  • Data sets microorganismsDT, microorganisms.prevDT, microorganisms.unprevDT and microorganisms.oldDT to improve the speed of as.mo. They are for reference only, since they are primarily for internal use of as.mo.
  • Function read.4D to read from the 4D database of the MMB department of the UMCG
  • Functions mo_authors and mo_year to get specific values about the scientific reference of a taxonomic entry

Changed

  • Functions MDRO, BRMO, MRGN and EUCAST_exceptional_phenotypes were renamed to mdro, brmo, mrgn and eucast_exceptional_phenotypes
  • EUCAST_rules was renamed to eucast_rules, the old function still exists as a deprecated function
  • Big changes to the eucast_rules function:
    • Now also applies rules from the EUCAST ‘Breakpoint tables for bacteria’, version 8.1, 2018, http://www.eucast.org/clinical_breakpoints/ (see Source of the function)
    • New parameter rules to specify which rules should be applied (expert rules, breakpoints, others or all)
    • New parameter verbose which can be set to TRUE to get very specific messages about which columns and rows were affected
    • Better error handling when rules cannot be applied (i.e. new values could not be inserted)
    • The number of affected values will now only be measured once per row/column combination
    • Data set septic_patients now reflects these changes
    • Added parameter pipe for piperacillin (J01CA12), also to the mdro function
    • Small fixes to EUCAST clinical breakpoint rules
  • Added column kingdom to the microorganisms data set, and function mo_kingdom to look up values
  • Tremendous speed improvement for as.mo (and subsequently all mo_* functions), as empty values wil be ignored a priori
  • Fewer than 3 characters as input for as.mo will return NA
  • Function as.mo (and all mo_* wrappers) now supports genus abbreviations with “species” attached

  • Added parameter combine_IR (TRUE/FALSE) to functions portion_df and count_df, to indicate that all values of I and R must be merged into one, so the output only consists of S vs. IR (susceptible vs. non-susceptible)
  • Fix for portion_*(..., as_percent = TRUE) when minimal number of isolates would not be met
  • Added parameter also_single_tested for portion_* and count_* functions to also include cases where not all antibiotics were tested but at least one of the tested antibiotics includes the target antimicribial interpretation, see ?portion
  • Using portion_* functions now throws a warning when total available isolate is below parameter minimum
  • Functions as.mo, as.rsi, as.mic, as.atc and freq will not set package name as attribute anymore
  • Frequency tables - freq():
  • first_isolate now tries to find columns to use as input when parameters are left blank
  • Improvements for MDRO algorithm (function mdro)
  • Data set septic_patients is now a data.frame, not a tibble anymore
  • Removed diacritics from all authors (columns microorganisms$ref and microorganisms.old$ref) to comply with CRAN policy to only allow ASCII characters
  • Fix for mo_property not working properly
  • Fix for eucast_rules where some Streptococci would become ceftazidime R in EUCAST rule 4.5
  • Support for named vectors of class mo, useful for top_freq()
  • ggplot_rsi and scale_y_percent have breaks parameter
  • AI improvements for as.mo:
    • "CRS" -> Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
    • "CRSM" -> Stenotrophomonas maltophilia
    • "MSSA" -> Staphylococcus aureus
    • "MSSE" -> Staphylococcus epidermidis
  • Fix for join functions
  • Speed improvement for is.rsi.eligible, now 15-20 times faster
  • In g.test, when sum(x) is below 1000 or any of the expected values is below 5, Fisher’s Exact Test will be suggested
  • ab_name will try to fall back on as.atc when no results are found
  • Removed the addin to view data sets
  • Percentages will now will rounded more logically (e.g. in freq function)

Other

  • New dependency on package crayon, to support formatted text in the console
  • Dependency tidyr is now mandatory (went to Import field) since portion_df and count_df rely on it
  • Updated vignettes to comply with README

AMR 0.4.0 2018-10-01

New

Changed

Other

  • More unit tests to ensure better integrity of functions

AMR 0.3.0 2018-08-14

New

  • BREAKING: rsi_df was removed in favour of new functions portion_R, portion_IR, portion_I, portion_SI and portion_S to selectively calculate resistance or susceptibility. These functions are 20 to 30 times faster than the old rsi function. The old function still works, but is deprecated.
    • New function portion_df to get all portions of S, I and R of a data set with antibiotic columns, with support for grouped variables
  • BREAKING: the methodology for determining first weighted isolates was changed. The antibiotics that are compared between isolates (call key antibiotics) to include more first isolates (afterwards called first weighted isolates) are now as follows:
    • Universal: amoxicillin, amoxicillin/clavlanic acid, cefuroxime, piperacillin/tazobactam, ciprofloxacin, trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole
    • Gram-positive: vancomycin, teicoplanin, tetracycline, erythromycin, oxacillin, rifampicin
    • Gram-negative: gentamicin, tobramycin, colistin, cefotaxime, ceftazidime, meropenem
  • Support for ggplot2
    • New functions geom_rsi, facet_rsi, scale_y_percent, scale_rsi_colours and theme_rsi
    • New wrapper function ggplot_rsi to apply all above functions on a data set:
      • septic_patients %>% select(tobr, gent) %>% ggplot_rsi will show portions of S, I and R immediately in a pretty plot
      • Support for grouped variables, see ?ggplot_rsi
  • Determining bacterial ID:
    • New functions as.bactid and is.bactid to transform/ look up microbial ID’s.
    • The existing function guess_bactid is now an alias of as.bactid
    • New Becker classification for Staphylococcus to categorise them into Coagulase Negative Staphylococci (CoNS) and Coagulase Positve Staphylococci (CoPS)
    • New Lancefield classification for Streptococcus to categorise them into Lancefield groups
  • For convience, new descriptive statistical functions kurtosis and skewness that are lacking in base R - they are generic functions and have support for vectors, data.frames and matrices
  • Function g.test to perform the Χ2 distributed G-test, which use is the same as chisq.test
  • Function ratio to transform a vector of values to a preset ratio
    • For example: ratio(c(10, 500, 10), ratio = "1:2:1") would return 130, 260, 130
  • Support for Addins menu in RStudio to quickly insert %in% or %like% (and give them keyboard shortcuts), or to view the datasets that come with this package
  • Function p.symbol to transform p values to their related symbols: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.1 ' ' 1
  • Functions clipboard_import and clipboard_export as helper functions to quickly copy and paste from/to software like Excel and SPSS. These functions use the clipr package, but are a little altered to also support headless Linux servers (so you can use it in RStudio Server)
  • New for frequency tables (function freq):
    • A vignette to explain its usage
    • Support for rsi (antimicrobial resistance) to use as input
    • Support for table to use as input: freq(table(x, y))
    • Support for existing functions hist and plot to use a frequency table as input: hist(freq(df$age))
    • Support for as.vector, as.data.frame, as_tibble and format
    • Support for quasiquotation: freq(mydata, mycolumn) is the same as mydata %>% freq(mycolumn)
    • Function top_freq function to return the top/below n items as vector
    • Header of frequency tables now also show Mean Absolute Deviaton (MAD) and Interquartile Range (IQR)
    • Possibility to globally set the default for the amount of items to print, with options(max.print.freq = n) where n is your preset value

Changed

  • Improvements for forecasting with resistance_predict and added more examples
  • More antibiotics added as parameters for EUCAST rules
  • Updated version of the septic_patients data set to better reflect the reality
  • Pretty printing for tibbles removed as it is not really the scope of this package
  • Printing of mic and rsi classes now returns all values - use freq to check distributions
  • Improved speed of key antibiotics comparison for determining first isolates
  • Column names for the key_antibiotics function are now generic: 6 for broadspectrum ABs, 6 for Gram-positive specific and 6 for Gram-negative specific ABs
  • Speed improvement for the abname function
  • %like% now supports multiple patterns
  • Frequency tables are now actual data.frames with altered console printing to make it look like a frequency table. Because of this, the parameter toConsole is not longer needed.
  • Fix for freq where the class of an item would be lost
  • Small translational improvements to the septic_patients dataset and the column bactid now has the new class "bactid"
  • Small improvements to the microorganisms dataset (especially for Salmonella) and the column bactid now has the new class "bactid"
  • Combined MIC/RSI values will now be coerced by the rsi and mic functions:
    • as.rsi("<=0.002; S") will return S
    • as.mic("<=0.002; S") will return <=0.002
  • Now possible to coerce MIC values with a space between operator and value, i.e. as.mic("<= 0.002") now works
  • Classes rsi and mic do not add the attribute package.version anymore
  • Added "groups" option for atc_property(..., property). It will return a vector of the ATC hierarchy as defined by the WHO. The new function atc_groups is a convenient wrapper around this.
  • Build-in host check for atc_property as it requires the host set by url to be responsive
  • Improved first_isolate algorithm to exclude isolates where bacteria ID or genus is unavailable
  • Fix for warning hybrid evaluation forced for row_number (924b62) from the dplyr package v0.7.5 and above
  • Support for empty values and for 1 or 2 columns as input for guess_bactid (now called as.bactid)
    • So yourdata %>% select(genus, species) %>% as.bactid() now also works
  • Other small fixes

Other

AMR 0.2.0 2018-05-03

New

  • Full support for Windows, Linux and macOS
  • Full support for old R versions, only R-3.0.0 (April 2013) or later is needed (needed packages may have other dependencies)
  • Function n_rsi to count cases where antibiotic test results were available, to be used in conjunction with dplyr::summarise, see ?rsi
  • Function guess_bactid to determine the ID of a microorganism based on genus/species or known abbreviations like MRSA
  • Function guess_atc to determine the ATC of an antibiotic based on name, trade name, or known abbreviations
  • Function freq to create frequency tables, with additional info in a header
  • Function MDRO to determine Multi Drug Resistant Organisms (MDRO) with support for country-specific guidelines.
  • New algorithm to determine weighted isolates, can now be "points" or "keyantibiotics", see ?first_isolate
  • New print format for tibbles and data.tables

Changed

  • Fixed rsi class for vectors that contain only invalid antimicrobial interpretations
  • Renamed dataset ablist to antibiotics
  • Renamed dataset bactlist to microorganisms
  • Added common abbreviations and trade names to the antibiotics dataset
  • Added more microorganisms to the microorganisms dataset
  • Added analysis examples on help page of dataset septic_patients
  • Added support for character vector in join functions
  • Added warnings when a join results in more rows after than before the join
  • Altered %like% to make it case insensitive
  • For parameters of functions first_isolate and EUCAST_rules column names are now case-insensitive
  • Functions as.rsi and as.mic now add the package name and version as attributes

Other

AMR 0.1.1 2018-03-14

  • EUCAST_rules applies for amoxicillin even if ampicillin is missing
  • Edited column names to comply with GLIMS, the laboratory information system
  • Added more valid MIC values
  • Renamed ‘Daily Defined Dose’ to ‘Defined Daily Dose’
  • Added barplots for rsi and mic classes

AMR 0.1.0 2018-02-22

  • First submission to CRAN.