INTEREST

INTEREST, acronym for INteractive Tool for Exploring REsults from Simulation sTudies, is an interactive web app developed using R and shiny. It allows exploring results from simulation studies interactively.

Live demo

A live demo of INTEREST can be found here. Please note that this version is still under active development: bug reports and feature requests are welcome.

Installation

INTEREST can be installed locally as a standalone R package, by typing the following R commands in your R console:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("ellessenne/interest")

This requires a working installation of R and, preferably, RStudio.

Launch application

To launch INTEREST first load the interest R package:

library(interest)

Then, use the interest() function:

interest()

The app should now launch in your browser.

Workflow

The workflow of INTERACT is simple:

1. Load your data and define variables representing point estimates, standard errors, methods, and so on;
2. Performance measures are estimated automatically;
3. Tables and plots are produced automatically, and can be customised and explored interactively;
4. Tables and plots can be exported for later use.

Additional material on INTEREST

• Slides on rsimsum and INTEREST presented at the 2019 useR! conference [here]

• Slides to present SiReX (former name of INTEREST) at the Students’ Day, 38^th Annual Conference of the International Society for Clinical Biostatistics [here]

• Poster at the 2017 Annual Conference of the Department of Health Sciences, University of Leicester [here]