R Observatory: Metrics for MetaUtility version 2.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MetaUtility

2.1.2Package record

Utility Functions for Conducting and Interpreting Meta-Analyses

1packages dependsuggested by 1

29.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Maya B. MathurCRAN page ↗

Contains functions to estimate the proportion of effects stronger than a threshold of scientific importance (function prop_stronger), to nonparametrically characterize the distribution of effects in a meta-analysis (calib_ests, pct_pval), to make effect size conversions (r_to_d, r_to_z, z_to_r, d_to_logRR), to compute and format inference in a meta-analysis (format_CI, format_stat, tau_CI), to scrape results from existing meta-analyses for re-analysis (scrape_meta, parse_CI_string, ci_to_var).

Install

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

install.packages("MetaUtility", 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-metautility

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-MetaUtility

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-MetaUtility

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

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

Maintainer: ‘Maya B. Mathur <mmathur@stanford.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = c("Maya", "B."),
                      family = "Mathur",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "mmathur@stanford.edu"),
               person(given = "Rui",
                      family = "Wang",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("Tyler", "J."),
                      family = "VanderWeele",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘metadat’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
NOTE10 OK, 4 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.2

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15
Examples that run: 100%12 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 86%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 7%
Help pages citing references: 47%

How these are measured

Downloads

29.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,214 · ~81/day · ~2.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.6K30 days

7.8K90 days

29.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on150 r2u1 autocran74 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MetaUtility adds 26 packages (13 with compiled code, 27 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, metafor 4.8 MB, mathjaxr 3.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (8)

metafor metadatstatsstringr purrr dplyr tidyr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

EValue

Suggests, most downloaded first

metaConvert

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (3)

Maya B. Mathur

Rui Wang

· added in 2.0.0

Tyler J. VanderWeele

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2019)

Releases (8)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.2Latest
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2021-10-30 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
ci_to_var
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.1.1
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2021-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
d_to_logRR
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.1.0
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2019-11-28 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2019-10-12 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2019-10-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
calib_ests, pct_pval
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.2.0
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2019-04-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
r_to_d
1.1.0
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2019-03-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
parse_CI_string, scrape_meta
1.0.0
record
2019-02-26

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R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-02-26
Total releases: 8 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 52 KB

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("MetaUtility")

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 MetaUtility version 2.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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