R Observatory: Metrics for metaDyn version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metaDyn

1.0.4Package record

Multivariate Meta-Analysis of Dynamic Model Estimates

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

62.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ivan Jacob Agaloos PesiganCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Fits fixed-, random-, or mixed-effects multivariate meta-analysis models using dynamic model estimates from each individual building on and extending Lee and Gates (2023) doi:10.1080/00273171.2023.2229310.

Changes in 1.0.4

Patch

Improved convergence assessment and Hessian-rescue behavior, including more robust selection of the best candidate fit.
Treats lower-bound solutions for softplus covariance-diagonal parameters as admissible rather than automatically classifying them as convergence failures.
Hardened parameter-bound detection, nudging, and bound relaxation.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("metaDyn", 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("jeksterslab/metaDyn")

Development version from jeksterslab/metaDyn. 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-metadyn

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-metaDyn

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK12 OK2026-04-25
ERROR6 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-25

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.0.4

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.0.4Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 20%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,737 · ~7/day · ~205/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25630 days

88490 days

2.5K1 year

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Also on373 r2u

How downloads are counted

Repository

jeksterslab/metadyn ↗Account: jeksterslab

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

150Commits

1Commit identities

150 commits · Last activity 2026-09-05

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2026-03-19 · 12026-09-05 · 3

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jeksterslab/metadyn on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (2)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-05 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

Reproducibility and dev environment (2)

MakefileDev Container

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (2)

Lint workflowRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing metaDyn adds 15 packages (12 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, OpenMx 3.7 MB, StanHeaders 2.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0OpenMx

Imports (2)

MatrixfitVARMxID

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown testthat simStateSpaceMASSmetaSEM expm

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Ivan Jacob Agaloos Pesigan

Releases (3)

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1.0.4Latest
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1.0.3
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2026-08-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1
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2026-03-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-24
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 50 KB

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Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("metaDyn")

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The repository also keeps a CITATION.cff.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metaDyn version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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