R Observatory: Metrics for MetaDose version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MetaDose

1.0.1Package record

Dose-Response Meta-Regression for Meta-Analysis

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ahmed AbdelmageedCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Conducting linear and nonlinear dose-response meta-regression using study-level summary data. It supports both continuous and binary outcomes and allows modeling of dose-effect relationships using linear trends or nonlinear restricted cubic splines. The package is designed to facilitate transparent, flexible, and reproducible dose-response meta-analyses, with built-in visualization of fitted dose-response curves.

Changes in 1.0.1

Maintenance release to address feedback from CRAN review.
Added examples to the documentation of core functions to illustrate typical workflows and ensure the package code is exercised during automated checks.
No changes to existing methods or results.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MetaDose", 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("asmpro7/MetaDose")

Development version from asmpro7/MetaDose. 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-metadose

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-MetaDose

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-MetaDose

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: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 201 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,565 · ~5/day · ~146/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

20530 days

59090 days

1.7K1 year

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Also on72 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

asmpro7/metadose ↗Account: asmpro7

2Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

22Commits

1Commit identities

meta-analysisrdose-responsemeta-regression

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 22 commits · Last activity 2026-01-22 · +100% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2026-02-18 · 12026-10-12 · 2

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/asmpro7/metadose on 2026-10-21.

Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MetaDose adds 66 packages (32 with compiled code, 75 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, TH.data 8.2 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

ggplot2 metafor rms rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Ahmed Abdelmageed

Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2026), Author

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
record
2026-01-12 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-12
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 6.8 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MetaDose")

Format

Abdelmageed, A. (2026). MetaDose: Dose-Response Meta-Regression for Meta-Analysis (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MetaDose

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 MetaDose version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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