R Observatory: Metrics for bayesmeta version 3.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

bayesmeta

3.5

Bayesian Random-Effects Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression

4packages depend

40.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Christian RoeverFirst published 2015-12-0621 releasesCRAN page ↗

A collection of functions allowing to derive the posterior distribution of the model parameters in random-effects meta-analysis or meta-regression, and providing functionality to evaluate joint and marginal posterior probability distributions, predictive distributions, shrinkage effects, posterior predictive p-values, etc.; For more details, see also Roever C (2020) doi:10.18637/jss.v093.i06, or Roever C and Friede T (2022) doi:10.1016/j.cmpb.2022.107303.

Install

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

install.packages("bayesmeta", 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-bayesmeta

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-bayesmeta

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-bayesmeta

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

4

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 82%
Documented parameters: 60%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 92%

Downloads

40.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,181 · ~111/day · ~3.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3K30 days

8.9K90 days

40.5K1 year

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Repository

Repository ↗ croever/bayesmeta

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Repository gitlab.gwdg.de/croever/bayesmeta is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

forestplot metafor mvtnorm numDeriv

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

compute.es knitr rmarkdown R.rsp

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

ra4bayesmeta WData confMeta metadat

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Christian Roever

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Christian Roever

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Tim Friede

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Beat Neuenschwander

no longer listed · 1.0

Simon Wandel

no longer listed · 1.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-12-06
Total releases: 21 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 35 KB / 14 files
Download size: 3.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Bayesian Inference Meta-Analysis

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citation("bayesmeta")

Format

Roever, C., & Friede, T. (2025). bayesmeta: Bayesian Random-Effects Meta-Analysis and Meta-Regression (Version 3.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.bayesmeta

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for bayesmeta version 3.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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