R Observatory: Metrics for effectcheck version 0.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

effectcheck

0.2.3

Statistical Consistency Checker for Published Research Results

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

71.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gilad FeldmanFirst published 2026-03-251 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A conservative, assumption-aware statistical consistency checker for published research results. Parses test statistics, effect sizes, and confidence intervals from text, PDF, HTML, and Word documents across multiple citation styles including American Psychological Association (APA), Harvard, Frontiers, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, Nature Human Behaviour, PeerJ, eLife, PNAS, and others. Recomputes effect sizes using all plausible variants when design is ambiguous, and validates internal consistency. Supports t-tests, F-tests/ANOVA, correlations, chi-square, z-tests, regression, and nonparametric tests. Provides 'statcheck'-compatible API functions for batch processing of files and directories. Explicitly tracks all assumptions and uncertainty in output. Detects decision errors (significance reversals) similar to 'statcheck'. Note: this package is under active development and results should be independently verified. Use is at the sole responsibility of the user. Contributions and verification reports are welcome.

Install

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

install.packages("effectcheck", 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("giladfeldman/escicheck")

Development version from giladfeldman/escicheck. 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-effectcheck

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-effectcheck

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-effectcheck

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.44

71.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

12

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
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-28
10 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-26
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,295 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 57%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #8,956 · ~6/day · ~172/mo

Releases R versions

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21030 days

1.1K90 days

2.1K1 year

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Also on339 r2u17 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ giladfeldman/escicheck

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0Open PRs

0Releases

Last activity 2026-08-09

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/giladfeldman/escicheck on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

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: claude on 2026-03-14

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-03-14

Evidence

claude: on or before 2026-03-14 · evidence B, D

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

stringr stringi dplyr purrr tibble xml2 rvest glue loggergraphicsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

shiny shinythemes DT knitr rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)MBESS effectsize jsonlite tesseract magick qpdf statcheck

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Gilad Feldman

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gilad Feldman

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.3Latest
2026-03-25 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-25
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("effectcheck")

Format

Feldman, G. (2026). effectcheck: Statistical Consistency Checker for Published Research Results (Version 0.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.effectcheck

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for effectcheck version 0.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-08-15, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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