R Observatory: Metrics for litReview version 1.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

litReview

1.0.0

Summarizing Graphs for Literature Reviews

0packages depend

120downloads / year

95.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sonsoles López-PernasFirst published 2026-08-071 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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)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.

# 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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.19

95.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-08
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 227 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

120

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,693 · ~0/day · ~10/mo

litReview Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sonsoleslp/litreview

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12Commits

1Contributors

12 commits · Last activity 2026-07-30

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sonsoleslp/litreview on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

cli dplyr ggplot2 ggtext gt rlang tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

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

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Sonsoles López-Pernas

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (3)

Sonsoles López-Pernas

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Kamila Misiejuk

Author

Mohammed Saqr

Author

Copyright holders (1)

Sonsoles López-Pernas

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

1.0.0Latest
2026-08-07 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-07
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 3.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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 1.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.litReview

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for litReview version 1.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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