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RoBMA

Robust Bayesian Meta-Analyses

v4.0.0 · May 7, 2026 · GPL-3

Description

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.

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ERROR r-release-macos-arm64

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Installation failed.
See ‘/Volumes/Builds/packages/sonoma-arm64/results/4.6/RoBMA.Rcheck/00install.out’ for details.

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ERROR 10 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 3 ERROR · 0 FAILURE May 7, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

whether package can be installed

Found the following significant warnings:
  Note: possible error in 'prior_weightfunction(distribution = "two.sided", ': unused arguments (distribution = "two.sided", parameters = list(alpha = c(1, 1), steps = c(0.05))) 
  Note: possible error in 'pr
...[truncated]...
on on the location(s) of code generating the ‘Note’s can be
obtained by re-running with environment variable R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE set
to ‘yes’.
* used C compiler: ‘gcc-15 (Debian 15.2.0-17) 15.2.0’
* used C++ compiler: ‘g++-15 (Debian 15.2.0-17) 15.2.0’
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

whether package can be installed

Found the following significant warnings:
  Note: possible error in 'prior_weightfunction(distribution = "two.sided", ': unused arguments (distribution = "two.sided", parameters = list(alpha = c(1, 1), steps = c(0.05))) 
  Note: possible error in 'pr
...[truncated]...
es’.
* used C compiler: ‘clang version 22.1.4 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 35990504507d79e0b9deb809c8ee5e1b34ceef20)’
* used C++ compiler: ‘clang version 22.1.4 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project 35990504507d79e0b9deb809c8ee5e1b34ceef20)’
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

whether package can be installed

Found the following significant warnings:
  Note: possible error in 'prior_weightfunction(distribution = "two.sided", ': unused arguments (distribution = "two.sided", parameters = list(alpha = c(1, 1), steps = c(0.05))) 
  Note: possible error in 'pr
...[truncated]...
 code generating the ‘Note’s can be
obtained by re-running with environment variable R_KEEP_PKG_SOURCE set
to ‘yes’.
* used C compiler: ‘gcc (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)’
* used C++ compiler: ‘g++ (GCC) 15.2.1 20260123 (Red Hat 15.2.1-7)’
OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

installed package size

installed size is  6.3Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.1Mb
    libs   1.7Mb
NOTE r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

installed package size

installed size is  6.4Mb
  sub-directories of 1Mb or more:
    doc    3.1Mb
    libs   1.7Mb

Reverse Dependencies (2)

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies BayesTools bridgesampling loo MASS runjags rjags mvtnorm scales Rdpack rlang coda ggplot2 BayesTools PublicationBiasBenchmark RoBMA

Version History

29 tracked
updated 4.0.0 ← 3.6.1 diff May 7, 2026
new 3.6.1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 3.6.1 ← 3.6.0 diff Dec 17, 2025
updated 3.6.0 ← 3.5.1 diff Sep 9, 2025
updated 3.5.1 ← 3.5.0 diff Jul 27, 2025
updated 3.5.0 ← 3.4.0 diff Jun 10, 2025
updated 3.4.0 ← 3.3.0 diff Feb 3, 2025
updated 3.3.0 ← 3.2.0 diff Jan 14, 2025
updated 3.2.0 ← 3.1.0 diff Dec 11, 2024
updated 3.1.0 ← 3.0.1 diff Jul 17, 2023
updated 3.0.1 ← 3.0.0 diff Jun 1, 2023
updated 3.0.0 ← 2.3.2 diff May 31, 2023
updated 2.3.2 ← 2.3.1 diff Mar 12, 2023
updated 2.3.1 ← 2.3.0 diff Jul 16, 2022
updated 2.3.0 ← 2.2.2 diff Jul 11, 2022