R Observatory: Metrics for metaSEM version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metaSEM

1.5.0Package record

Meta-Analysis using Structural Equation Modeling

1packages dependsuggested by 4

22Kdownloads / year

22.2%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Mike CheungCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A collection of functions for conducting meta-analysis using a structural equation modeling (SEM) approach via the 'OpenMx' and 'lavaan' packages. It also implements various procedures to perform meta-analytic structural equation modeling on the correlation and covariance matrices, see Cheung (2015) doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01521.

Install

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

install.packages("metaSEM", 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("mikewlcheung/metasem")

Development version from mikewlcheung/metasem. 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-metasem

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-metaSEM

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-metaSEM

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  metaSEM/tests/testthat/test_utilities.R (.Dim: 4, .Dimnames: 4)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-08
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-07
OK12 OK2026-04-25
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.0

READMEYes · 60 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · staticNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 91includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 45%32 run in a plain check · 39 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 70%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 43%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

22K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,917 · ~60/day · ~1.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.9K30 days

10.1K90 days

22K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on940 r2u4 autocran170 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mikewlcheung/metasem ↗Account: mikewlcheung

33Stars

13Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

393Commits

3Commit identities

meta-analysisstructural-equation-modelingstructural-equation-modelsmeta-analytic-semmultivariate-analysismissing-datamultilevel-modelsr-package

393 commits · Last activity 2026-08-25 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.6.0, ahead of CRAN 1.5.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 38
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-03 · 332026-07-07 · 33

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mikewlcheung/metasem on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing metaSEM adds 18 packages (13 with compiled code, 29 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, OpenMx 3.7 MB, StanHeaders 2.5 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.4.0OpenMx

Imports (9)

MatrixMASSellipsegraphicsstatsutilsmvtnorm numDeriv lavaan

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

metafor semPlot R.rsp testthat matrixcalc

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 4

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

symSEM

Suggests, most downloaded first

semPlot psychonetrics metavcov metaDyn

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Mike Cheung

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.2.3

Maintainer since 0.9.4 (2015)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mike W.-L. Cheung

no longer listed · 0.9.4 to 1.2.2

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-08
Total releases: 20 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Bundled data: 104 KB / 37 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis Psychometric Models and Methods

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("metaSEM")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01521.

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 metaSEM version 1.5.0 [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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