R Observatory: Metrics for boutliers version 2.1-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

boutliers

2.1-3Package record

Outlier Detection and Influence Diagnostics for Meta-Analysis

0packages depend

3.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Hisashi NomaCRAN page ↗

Computational tools for outlier detection and influence diagnostics in meta-analysis (Noma et al. (2025) doi:10.1101/2025.09.18.25336125). Bootstrap distributions of influence statistics are computed, and explicit thresholds for identifying outliers are provided. These methods can also be applied to the analysis of influential centers or regions in multicenter or multiregional clinical trials (Aoki, Noma and Gosho (2021) doi:10.1080/24709360.2021.1921944, Nakamura and Noma (2021) doi:10.5691/jjb.41.117).

Changes in 2.1-3

Output styles are arranged.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("boutliers", 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-boutliers

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-boutliers

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-boutliers

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 2.1-3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1-3Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7includes a package overview page
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: 57%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,610 · ~10/day · ~305/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38930 days

98490 days

3.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on138 r2u15 autocran79 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing boutliers adds 6 packages (1 with compiled code, 9.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: metafor 4.8 MB, mathjaxr 3.0 MB, metadat 1.1 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

statsmetaforMASS

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Hisashi Noma

Author, Maintainer since 1.1-1 (2020)

Masahiko Gosho

Author · added in 1.1-2

Kazushi Maruo

Author · added in 2.1-1

Releases (5)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-11-04
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Bundled data: 1.8 KB / 3 files
Download size: 9.5 KB

Appears in task views

Anomaly Detection Meta-Analysis

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("boutliers")

Format

Noma, H., Gosho, M., & Maruo, K. (2025). boutliers: Outlier Detection and Influence Diagnostics for Meta-Analysis (Version 2.1-3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.boutliers

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for boutliers version 2.1-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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