R Observatory: Metrics for MetaStan version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MetaStan

1.0.0

Bayesian Meta-Analysis via 'Stan'

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

55.6%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Burak Kuersad GuenhanFirst published 2018-09-308 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Performs Bayesian meta-analysis, meta-regression and model-based meta-analysis using 'Stan'. Includes binomial-normal hierarchical models and option to use weakly informative priors for the heterogeneity parameter and the treatment effect parameter which are described in Guenhan, Roever, and Friede (2020) doi:10.1002/jrsm.1370.

Install

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

install.packages("MetaStan", 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("gunhanb/MetaStan")

Development version from gunhanb/MetaStan. 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-metastan

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-MetaStan

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-MetaStan

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 15.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.15

55.6%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-29
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-27
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 5 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-22
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 17%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 27%

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,300 · ~9/day · ~280/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28630 days

95290 days

3.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on416 r2u29 autocran82 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ gunhanb/metastan

9Stars

4Forks

6Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

91Commits

9Contributors

91 commits · Last activity 2026-04-25 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-09-15 · 82026-07-07 · 9

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gunhanb/metastan on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (9)

Rcppmethodsrstan rstantools (>= 1.5.0)loo forestplot metafor HDInterval coda

LinkingTo (6)

StanHeaders rstan BH (>= 1.66.0-1)Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel

Suggests (6)

testthat knitr rmarkdown ggplot2 shinystan vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Burak Kuersad Guenhan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Burak Kuersad Guenhan

Author, Maintainer

Christian Roever

Author · added in 1.0.0

Copyright holders (1)

Trustees of Columbia University

Copyright holder

Package Timeline

8 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.0.0Latest
2022-01-22 · current release · diff ↗
0.4.0
2021-07-25 · diff ↗
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.2.0
2020-04-09 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-04-09
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-04-03
check problems were not corrected in time Errors in '\donttest' parts of examples
0.1.1
2019-12-03 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2019-05-12 · diff ↗
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.0.3
2019-01-19 · diff ↗

Show 5 earlier events

0.0.2
2018-11-15 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-11-15
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-11-10
installation errors were not corrected despite reminders 'StanHeaders' requires at least C++11 Uses 'Rscript --vanilla' to find 'StanHeaders' (and often fails)
0.0.1
2018-09-30
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-30
Total releases: 8 / 8 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 2.3 KB / 5 files
Download size: 110 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MetaStan")

Format

Guenhan, B. K., Columbia University, T. o., & Roever, C. (2022). MetaStan: Bayesian Meta-Analysis via 'Stan' (Version 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MetaStan

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 MetaStan version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-15, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

Report a problem with this page →