biospear: an R package for biomarker selection in penalized Cox regression.

International audienceSummary:The R package biospear allows selecting the biomarkers with the strongest impact on survival and on the treatment effect in high-dimensional Cox models, and estimating expected survival probabilities. Most of the implemented approaches are based on penalized regression techniques.Availability:The package is available on the CRAN. ( https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=biospear )