R Observatory: Metrics for EvidenceSynthesis version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

EvidenceSynthesis

1.1.0Package record

Synthesizing Causal Evidence in a Distributed Research Network

0packages depend

67.1Kdownloads / year

72.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martijn SchuemieCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Routines for combining causal effect estimates and study diagnostics across multiple data sites in a distributed study, without sharing patient-level data. Allows for normal and non-normal approximations of the data-site likelihood of the effect parameter.

Changes in 1.1.0

Changes

1. Adding prediction intervals to the output of computeBayesianMetaAnalysis().

2. Updated style of plotMetaAnalysisForest() and added prediction intervals.

3. Adhering to `ggplot2' version 4 syntax to avoid deprecation warnings.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("EvidenceSynthesis", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("OHDSI/EvidenceSynthesis")

Development version from OHDSI/EvidenceSynthesis. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-evidencesynthesis

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-EvidenceSynthesis

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-EvidenceSynthesis

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 11.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-29
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-04
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-24
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-17
OK13 OK2026-05-15
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-13
OK12 OK2026-04-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-30
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 217 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 0% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 44 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 97%35 run in a plain check · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 82%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 85%
Help pages citing references: 11%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

67.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,812 · ~184/day · ~5.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

71530 days

1.7K90 days

67.1K1 year

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Also on136 r2u4 autocran76 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ohdsi/evidencesynthesis ↗Organization: OHDSI

11Stars

8Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

7Releases

358Commits

10Commit identities

hades

358 commits · Last activity 2025-10-15 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 25%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 15
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2023-01-11 · 82026-08-22 · 11

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ohdsi/evidencesynthesis on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-10-15

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing EvidenceSynthesis adds 74 packages (37 with compiled code, 76 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, duckdb 7.9 MB, BeastJar 7.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0survival

Imports (13)

dplyr ggplot2 ggdist gridExtra meta EmpiricalCalibration rJava BeastJar Cyclops (>= 3.6.0)HDInterval coda rlangmethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat sn tidyr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Martijn Schuemie

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2020)

Fan Bu

Author · added in 0.5.0

Marc A. Suchard

Author

Observational Health Data Science and Informatics

Copyright holder

Releases (10)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.1.0Latest
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2025-10-15 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2025-08-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 12 exports
buildLabelReferences, computeHierarchicalMetaAnalysis, constructDataModel, createApproximations, createSccsSimulationSettings, extractSourceSpecificEffects, generateBayesianHMAsettings, hermiteInterpolation, loadCyclopsLibraryForJava, prepareSccsIntervalData, simulateMetaAnalysisWithNegativeControls, summarizeChain
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.0
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2023-05-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
biasCorrectionInference, fitBiasDistribution, plotBiasCorrectionInference, plotBiasDistribution, sequentialFitBiasDistribution
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.4.1
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2023-04-05 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2023-01-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
detectApproximationType
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-09-09
0.3.0
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2022-09-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
approximateHierarchicalNormalPosterior, approximateSimplePosterior
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2022-08-08
requires archived package 'Cyclops'
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2021-01-29
0.2.3
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2021-01-29 · diff ↗

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archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-01-18
check problems were not corrected in time
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-12-18
0.2.2
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2020-12-18 · diff ↗
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-12-17
check problems were not corrected in time
0.2.1
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2020-11-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
supportsJava8
0.2.0
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2020-11-19
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-19
Total releases: 10 / 6 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 692 KB / 4 files
Download size: 4.2 MB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("EvidenceSynthesis")

Format

Schuemie, M., Observational Health Data Science and Informatics, Bu, F., & Suchard, M. A. (2025). EvidenceSynthesis: Synthesizing Causal Evidence in a Distributed Research Network (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.EvidenceSynthesis

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for EvidenceSynthesis version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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