tern

0.9.11

Create Common TLGs Used in Clinical Trials

11packages depend

51.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Joe ZhuFirst published 2023-06-1912 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Table, Listings, and Graphs (TLG) library for common outputs used in clinical trials.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("tern", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("insightsengineering/tern")

Development version from insightsengineering/tern. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-tern

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-tern

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 14.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-07-23
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-09
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 2 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ insightsengineering/tern

105Stars

31Forks

51Open issues

0Open PRs

30Releases

3,133Commits

136Contributors

rtableslistingsgraphsoutputsclinical-trialsnest

3,133 commits · Last activity 2026-07-19 · +1.9% stars, 30d

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Checks run against github.com/insightsengineering/tern on 2026-07-19.

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CRAN release process (2)

revdep/CRAN-SUBMISSION

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

27 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.4.0rtables

Imports (25)

broom car checkmate cowplot dplyr emmeans forcats formatters ggplot2gridgridExtra gtable labeling lifecycleMASSmethodsnestcolor (>= 0.1.1)Rdpack rlang scalesstatssurvivaltibble tidyr (>= 0.8.3)utils

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none

Suggests (8)

knitrlatticelubridate rmarkdown stringr svglite testthat withr

Enhances (0)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

0indirect

teal.modules.clinical tern.gee tern.mmrm aNCA autoslider.core chevron junco teal.modules.general uteals dtlg rtables.officer

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (14)

Maintainer (1)

Joe Zhu

Author, Maintainer

Authors (12)

Joe Zhu

Author, Maintainer

Francois Collin

Author

Davide Garolini

Author · added in 0.9.4

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author

Author · added in 0.9.4

Emily de la Rua

Author · added in 0.9.4

Contributors (1)

David Munoz Tord

Contributor · added in 0.9.11

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Funders (1)

F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG

Package Timeline

12 releases. R releases are shown for context.

0.9.11Latest
2026-07-17 · current release · diff ↗
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.9.10
2025-12-18 · diff ↗
0.9.9
2025-06-20 · diff ↗
0.9.8
2025-04-14 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.9.7
2025-01-17 · diff ↗
0.9.6
2024-09-24 · diff ↗
0.9.5
2024-06-21 · diff ↗
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.9.4
2024-04-17 · diff ↗
0.9.3
2023-12-08 · diff ↗
0.9.0
2023-09-01 · diff ↗
0.8.4
2023-06-27 · diff ↗
0.8.3
2023-06-19
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2023-06-19
Total releases: 12 / 3 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Download size: 4.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting

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