R Observatory: Metrics for RoBMA version 4.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RoBMA

4.0.0

Robust Bayesian Meta-Analyses

2packages depend

10.5Kdownloads / year

76.9%test coverage

10/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by František BartošFirst published 2020-08-0628 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A framework for Bayesian meta-analysis, including model estimation, prior specification, model comparison, prediction, summaries, visualizations, and diagnostics. The package fits single and model-averaged meta-analytic, meta-regression, multilevel, publication bias adjusted, and generalized linear mixed models The model-averaged meta-analytic models combine competing models based on their predictive performance, weight inference by posterior model probabilities, and test model components using Bayes factors (e.g., effect vs. no effect; Bartoš et al., 2022, doi:10.1002/jrsm.1594; Maier, Bartoš & Wagenmakers, 2022, doi:10.1037/met0000405; Bartoš et al., 2025, doi:10.1037/met0000737). Users can specify flexible prior distributions for effect sizes, heterogeneity, publication bias (including selection models and PET-PEESE), and moderators.

Install

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

install.packages("RoBMA", 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/RoBMA")

Development version from FBartos/RoBMA. 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-robma

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-RoBMA

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-RoBMA

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

Health

CRAN checks

1ERROR2NOTE10OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
ERROR r-release-macos-arm64

Slowest check: 6.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.65

76.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

15

Dependencies · direct

Check history

ERROR2026-05-07
10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 3 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,159 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 9%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 22%

Downloads

10.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,698 · ~29/day · ~873/mo

Releases R versions

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92130 days

2.5K90 days

10.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ fbartos/robma

11Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

1Open PRs

19Releases

117Commits

3Contributors

publication-biasmeta-analysismodel-averaging

117 commits · Last activity 2026-08-18 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-11-21 · 92026-07-07 · 11

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/fbartos/robma on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: copilot on 2025-06-09

copilotagents-dirclaudegemini

Most recent: gemini on 2026-05-07

Evidence

copilot: on 2025-06-09 · evidence A, PR · sole bot-author seen
agents-dir: on 2026-05-07 · evidence D
agents-md: on 2026-05-07 · evidence D
claude: on 2026-05-07 · evidence D
gemini: on 2026-05-07 · evidence D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (15)

BayesTools bridgesampling looMASSparallelrunjags rjagsstatsgraphicsmvtnorm scales Rdpack rlang coda ggplot2

LinkingTo (1)

mvtnorm

Suggests (13)

metafor posterior weightr lme4 fixest metaBMA emmeans metadat testthat vdiffr knitr rmarkdown covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

BayesTools PublicationBiasBenchmark

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Maintainer (1)

František Bartoš

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

František Bartoš

Author, Maintainer

Maximilian Maier

Author

Contributors (1)

Joris Goosen

Contributor

Copyright holders (2)

Matthew Denwood

Copyright holder · added in 2.0.0

Martyn Plummer

Copyright holder · added in 2.0.0

Other (1)

Eric-Jan Wagenmakers

Thesis advisor

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2020-08-06
Total releases: 28 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 59 KB / 12 files
Download size: 4.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Bayesian Inference Meta-Analysis

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Format

Bartoš, F., Denwood, M., Goosen, J., Maier, M., Plummer, M., & Wagenmakers, E. (2026). RoBMA: Robust Bayesian Meta-Analyses (Version 4.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RoBMA

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RoBMA version 4.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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