R Observatory: Metrics for litReview version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

litReview

1.1.0Package record

Summarizing Graphs for Literature Reviews

0packages depend

870downloads / year

73.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sonsoles López-PernasCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Summarizes and visualizes categorical data extracted during literature reviews and evidence syntheses, starting from a data frame with one row per study. Generates publication-ready bar, stacked bar, histogram, waffle, donut, treemap, alluvial, trend, co-occurrence, 'UpSet', tree, and study-by-criteria matrix figures, together with world maps and formatted summary tables. Plot functions return standard 'ggplot2' objects that can be further customized, and an interactive 'Shiny' application is included for building figures without writing code. Aims to help researchers report study characteristics consistently across many publications.

Install

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

install.packages("litReview", 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("sonsoleslp/litReview")

Development version from sonsoleslp/litReview. 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-litreview

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-litReview

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-litReview

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: 4.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-10-24
OK6 OK2026-08-08

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 227 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · does not mention 1.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 21 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 95%19 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Getting Started with litReview HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

870

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,469 · ~2/day · ~73/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

27230 days

87090 days

8701 year

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Also on22 r2u1 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

sonsoleslp/litreview ↗Account: sonsoleslp

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

12Commits

1Commit identities

12 commits · Last activity 2026-07-30 · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-25

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/sonsoleslp/litreview on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-30, before release 1.1.0 (2026-08-26)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-05-06
Commits: at least 1 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.61 commit · May 2026

Counts are commits, not lines of code. Commits by a tool's accounts count once across all of its accounts. Commits crediting it are the largest count among its credit lines, a minimum.How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing litReview adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

cli dplyr ggplot2grDevicesgridrlang tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

bslib ggalluvial ggupset gt RColorBrewer treemapify maps knitr readxl rmarkdown shiny testthat

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 (3)

Sonsoles López-Pernas

Kamila Misiejuk

Author

Mohammed Saqr

Author

Releases (2)

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1.1.0Latest
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2026-08-07 · current release · diff ↗
1.0.0
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first seen 2026-08-07
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First seen: 2026-08-07
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 3.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("litReview")

Format

López-Pernas, S., Misiejuk, K., & Saqr, M. (2026). litReview: Summarizing Graphs for Literature Reviews (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.litReview

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

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 litReview version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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