R Observatory: Metrics for metaConvert version 2.0.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metaConvert

2.0.0

An Automatic Suite for Estimation of Various Effect Size Measures

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8.5Kdownloads / year

50.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Corentin J. GoslingFirst published 2024-02-295 releasesCRAN page ↗

Automatically estimate 14 effect size measures from a well-formatted dataset, including Cohen's d, Hedges' g, mean difference, odds ratio, risk ratio, incidence rate ratio, risk difference, number needed to treat, Pearson correlation, Fisher's z, Cronbach's alpha, intraclass correlation coefficient, and single-group proportion. Provides a two-tier quality-flag diagnostic system for input validation and post-computation plausibility checks, missing-data guidance that tells users which columns would unlock additional estimators, post-hoc correction for attenuation due to measurement error, and standalone psychometric utilities (standard error of measurement, smallest detectable change, change-score reliability). Various other functions can help, for example, removing dependency between several effect sizes, or identifying differences between two datasets. This package is mainly designed to assist in conducting a systematic review with a meta-analysis but can be useful to any researcher interested in estimating an effect size.

Install

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

install.packages("metaConvert", 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-metaconvert

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-metaConvert

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-metaConvert

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 9.8 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

50.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

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Documentation

READMEYes · 238 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 79%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,489 · ~23/day · ~705/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

19 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (4)

compareDF metafor estimraw rio

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none

Suggests (16)

testthat metaumbrella TOSTER esc epiR compute.es meta effectsize MetaUtilityMASSmvtnorm psych psychmeta knitr DT rmarkdown

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none

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metaumbrella

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Maintainer (1)

Corentin J. Gosling

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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: 2024-02-29
Total releases: 5 / 2 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 16 KB / 5 files
Download size: 608 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Gosling, C. J., Cortese, S., Delorme, R., Fusar-Poli, P., Haza, B., Radua, J., Solmi, M., & Vieta, E. (2026). metaConvert: An Automatic Suite for Estimation of Various Effect Size Measures (Version 2.0.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.metaConvert

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metaConvert version 2.0.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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