The rms package, a replacement for the Design package, has been updated on CRAN. The most major change is the addition of smooth calibration curves for externally (val.surv function) or internally (calibrate.cph, calibrate.psm) validating a survival model with right-censored data. The polspline package is used to estimate the survival probability at a fixed time point as a function of the predicted survival probability. Some user-requested plotting features have been added to bplot and plot.Predict.

Changes in version 2.1-0
   * Made Predict not return invisibly if predictors not specified
* New option nlines for plot.Predict for getting line plots with 2 categorical predictors * Added rename option to rbind.Predict to handle case where predictor name has changed between models
   * Added ties=mean to approx( ) calls that did not have ties= specified
   * Added nlevels argument to bplot to pass to contour
   * Added par argument to iLegend - list to pass to par().
   * Redirected ... argument to iLegend to image( ).
   * Fixed groupkm - was printing warning messages wrongly
* Added new semiparametric survival prediction calibration curve method in val.surv for external validation; this is the first implementation of smooth calibration curves for survival probability validation with right-censored data
   * Fixed calibrate confidence limits from groupkm
* Added smooth calibration curve using hare (polspline package) for calibrate.cph and calibrate.psm * Added display of predicted risks for cph and psm models even for the stratified KM method (old default)

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Frank E Harrell Jr   Professor and Chair           School of Medicine
                     Department of Biostatistics   Vanderbilt University

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