Research Tools

Research tools enable state-of-the-art data analysis at Swisstransplant.

Basic statistics software

The basic statistics software can be downloaded for free in the links provided below.

Hinweis

The RStudio desktop installer for Windows 10 requires administrator rights. However, it is possible to download a zip bundle from the download page, unpack the files into a folder, for example, software, and create a shortcut with rstudio.exe on the desktop or the taskbar.

Swisstransplant R package

The Swisstransplant R package swt is the Swiss army knife for data analysis at Swisstransplant. It is under constant developed.

Statistical Reporting:

  • A Quarto statistical report template in the Swisstransplant in-house style
  • Swisstransplant color scheme swt_colors()
  • A ggplot style called swt_style() for data figures styling
  • Tidy functions to nicely format p-values, regression models, and descriptive statistics

Research:

  • HLA mismatch calculator designed for the antigens format as found in SOAS
  • Prognostic models for individual predictions of patients (e.g., KIDMO)
  • Tools to read and process data from the LifePort kidney transporter

The source code is developed on GitHub and a package manual is available. The package swt can be installed from within RStudio as follows (requires the package remotes):

remotes::install_github("Swisstransplant/swt")

R cookbook

The R cookbook demonstrates the usage of the Swisstransplant R package swt to make high-quality reports and publication-ready graphics in our in-house style.