R Observatory: Metrics for MAd version 0.8-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MAd

0.8-3Package record

Meta-Analysis with Mean Differences

1packages depend

6.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by AC Del ReCRAN page ↗Website ↗

A collection of functions for conducting a meta-analysis with mean differences data. It uses recommended procedures as described in The Handbook of Research Synthesis and Meta-Analysis (Cooper, Hedges, & Valentine, 2009).

Install

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

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

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

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-mad

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-MAd

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-MAd

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘AC Del Re <acdelre@gmail.com>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.8-3

READMEYes · 10 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 0% structuredCitation fileYes · software entry onlyWebsiteYes

Help pages: 83 (38 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%15 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 30%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 42%

How these are measured

Downloads

6.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,920 · ~18/day · ~539/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

49130 days

1.4K90 days

6.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on99 r2u166 autocran134 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MAd adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10.1

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

metafor ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SSDforR

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

AC Del Re

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2010)

William Hoyt

Author · added in 0.8-3

Listed in earlier versions (1)

William T. Hoyt

no longer listed · 0.1 to 0.8-2.1

Releases (11)

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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2010-03-07
Total releases: 11 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10.1
Bundled data: 19 KB / 8 files
Download size: 69 KB

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("MAd")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MAd version 0.8-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-20, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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