R Observatory: Metrics for boot.heterogeneity version 1.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

boot.heterogeneity

1.1.5Package record

A Bootstrap-Based Heterogeneity Test for Meta-Analysis

0packages depend

3.4Kdownloads / year

63.4%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ge JiangCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements a bootstrap-based heterogeneity test for standardized mean differences (d), Fisher-transformed Pearson's correlations (r), and natural-logarithm-transformed odds ratio (or) in meta-analysis studies. Depending on the presence of moderators, this Monte Carlo based test can be implemented in the random- or mixed-effects model. This package uses rma() function from the R package 'metafor' to obtain parameter estimates and likelihoods, so installation of R package 'metafor' is required. This approach refers to the studies of Anscombe (1956) doi:10.2307/2332926, Haldane (1940) doi:10.2307/2332614, Hedges (1981) doi:10.3102/10769986006002107, Hedges & Olkin (1985, ISBN:978-0123363800), Silagy, Lancaster, Stead, Mant, & Fowler (2004) doi:10.1002/14651858.CD000146.pub2, Viechtbauer (2010) doi:10.18637/jss.v036.i03, and Zuckerman (1994, ISBN:978-0521432009).

Install

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

install.packages("boot.heterogeneity", 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("gabriellajg/boot.heterogeneity")

Development version from gabriellajg/boot.heterogeneity. 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-boot.heterogeneity

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-boot.heterogeneity

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-boot.heterogeneity

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

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

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘HSAUR3’ ‘knitr’ ‘rmarkdown’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.5

READMEYes · 156 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Description cites a JSS article

Help pages: 3
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 100%

Vignettes (1)

boot.heterogeneity

How these are measured

Downloads

3.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,798 · ~9/day · ~282/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

37130 days

96990 days

3.4K1 year

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Also on96 r2u25 autocran51 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

gabriellajg/boot.heterogeneity ↗Account: gabriellajg

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0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2021-10-18

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/gabriellajg/boot.heterogeneity on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI (config file)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing boot.heterogeneity adds 32 packages (15 with compiled code, 30 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, metafor 4.8 MB, HSAUR3 3.3 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (7)

statsmetaforutilspbmcapply HSAUR3 knitr rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

base roxygen2paralleltestthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Ge Jiang

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Han Du

Author

Zijun Ke

Contributor

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-05-08
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 276 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("boot.heterogeneity")

Format

Jiang, G., Du, H., & Ke, Z. (2021). boot.heterogeneity: A Bootstrap-Based Heterogeneity Test for Meta-Analysis (Version 1.1.5) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.boot.heterogeneity

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for boot.heterogeneity version 1.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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