R Observatory: Metrics for heterometa version 0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

heterometa

0.5Package record

Convert Various Meta-Analysis Heterogeneity Measures

0packages depend

3.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael DeweyCRAN page ↗

Published meta-analyses routinely present one of the measures of heterogeneity introduced in Higgins and Thompson (2002) doi:10.1002/sim.1186. For critiquing articles it is often better to convert to another of those measures. Some conversions are provided here and confidence intervals are also available.

Changes in 0.5

improved printing
improved documentation
fixed problem with mathjaxr (Thanks Kurt Hornik)

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("heterometa", 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-heterometa

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-heterometa

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-heterometa

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: 56 s · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 75% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

3.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,585 · ~9/day · ~270/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30930 days

89090 days

3.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on117 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing heterometa adds 3 packages (1 with compiled code, 4.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mathjaxr 3.0 MB, rbibutils 1.1 MB, Rdpack 370 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (2)

Rdpack mathjaxr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Michael Dewey

Author, Maintainer since 0.2 (2024)

Releases (4)

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-05
Total releases: 4 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 0.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 168 KB

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Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("heterometa")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 heterometa version 0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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