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EvidenceSynthesis

Synthesizing Causal Evidence in a Distributed Research Network

v1.1.0 · Oct 15, 2025 · Apache License 2.0
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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.

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! Package pdftex.def Error: File `fd59b50eee623573a389f8d456f98c5051d483f2.pdf'
 not found: using draft setting.

Error: processing vignette 'VideoVignette.Rmd' failed with diagnostics:
LaTeX failed to compile D:/RCompile/CRANpkg/local/4.4/EvidenceSynthesis.Rcheck/vign_test/EvidenceSynthesis/vignettes/VideoVignette.tex. See https://yihui.org/tinytex/r/#debugging for debugging tips. See VideoVignette.log for more info.
--- failed re-building 'VideoVignette.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  'BayesianBiasCorrection.Rmd' 'NonNormalEffectSynthesis.Rmd'
  'VideoVignette.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted

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ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 30, 2026
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

re-building of vignette outputs

Error(s) in re-building vignettes:
--- re-building 'BayesianBiasCorrection.Rmd' using rmarkdown

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e.log for more info.
--- failed re-building 'VideoVignette.Rmd'

SUMMARY: processing the following files failed:
  'BayesianBiasCorrection.Rmd' 'NonNormalEffectSynthesis.Rmd'
  'VideoVignette.Rmd'

Error: Vignette re-building failed.
Execution halted
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies survival dplyr ggplot2 ggdist gridExtra meta EmpiricalCalibration rJava BeastJar Cyclops (>= 3.6.0) HDInterval coda rlang EvidenceSynthesis

Version History

new 1.1.0 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Oct 14, 2025
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.5.0 diff Aug 25, 2025
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.1 diff May 7, 2023
updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4.0 diff Apr 4, 2023
updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Jan 10, 2023
updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.3 diff Sep 8, 2022
updated 0.2.3 ← 0.2.2 diff Jan 28, 2021
updated 0.2.2 ← 0.2.1 diff Dec 17, 2020
updated 0.2.1 ← 0.2.0 diff Nov 19, 2020
new 0.2.0 Nov 18, 2020