We are pleased to announce that Opal 4.2 is now available. Opal is OBiBa’s core data management application for biobanks.
This release of Opal now supports multiple clusters of Rock R servers. This allows to have different R environments: different R versions and different R packages installed.
This fully integrates with the DataSHIELD federated analysis platform by introducing DataSHIELD profiles:
Additional changes:
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) is not permitted anymore.Breaking changes
This Opal release is backward compatible: no major breaking changes are expected.
R and DataSHIELD packages
These packages have been updated and are backward compatible:
# opal R client, with profiles support install.packages("opalr") # DataSHIELD interface, with profiles support install.packages("DSI") # DataSHIELD interface Opal implementation install.packages("DSOpal")
Documentation
See Opal documentation for installation and operation instructions. We recommend to have a look at the section about Docker Image Installation .
See also Opal R package documentation which contains useful articles for managing Opal system and data from R.
Aknowledgements
This release was possible thanks to the funding of the EUCAN-Connect program.