PublicationBiasBenchmark

0.2.1

Benchmark for Publication Bias Correction Methods

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

47.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by František BartošFirst published 2025-11-056 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements a unified interface for benchmarking meta-analytic publication bias correction methods through simulation studies (see Bartoš et al., 2025, doi:10.48550/arXiv.2510.19489). It provides 1) predefined data-generating mechanisms from the literature, 2) functions for running meta-analytic methods on simulated data, 3) pre-simulated datasets and pre-computed results for reproducible benchmarks, 4) tools for visualizing and comparing method performance.

Install

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

install.packages("PublicationBiasBenchmark", 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("FBartos/PublicationBiasBenchmark")

Development version from FBartos/PublicationBiasBenchmark. 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-publicationbiasbenchmark

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-PublicationBiasBenchmark

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-PublicationBiasBenchmark

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.05

47.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-05-31
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-05-08
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 2 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,332 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 77%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 45%

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,087 · ~9/day · ~273/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fbartos/publicationbiasbenchmark

2Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

166Commits

3Contributors

benchmarkmeta-analysispublication-biassimulation

166 commits · Last activity 2026-05-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-09-19 · 22026-07-07 · 2

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fbartos/publicationbiasbenchmark on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (12)

statsmetafor osfrMASSnumDeriv pwr sandwich clubSandwich lmtest puniform Rdpack MAIVE

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

RoBMA BayesTools testthat (>= 3.0.0)rmarkdown knitr kableExtra DT ggplot2 scales ggdist rprojroot desc

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 8,603 (68%)Rd 2,628 (21%)Vignettes 1,350 (11%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S397

Cyclomatic complexity: 1.0 median / 64 max
Test cases: 10 / 0.05 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

47%

Expression

40.9%

Tests / Examples

47.4% / 37% ex

Functions

236 52 exported

Complexity

3.6 avg / 64 max

Call network

236 nodes / 129 edges

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Lowest coverage

236 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
PublicationBiasBenchmark.options exp	3	0%
bias exp	1	0%
bias_mcse exp	1	0%
compare_measures exp	13	0%
compare_single_measure exp	34	0%
compute_measures exp	7	0%

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

František Bartoš

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

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Package Timeline

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

0.2.1Latest
2026-05-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.0
2026-03-16 · diff ↗
0.1.3
2025-12-05 · diff ↗
0.1.2
2025-11-26 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2025-11-17 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2025-11-05
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-11-05
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 822 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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