R Observatory: Metrics for metabias version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metabias

0.1.1Package record

Meta-Analysis for Within-Study and/or Across-Study Biases

3packages depend

4.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Peter SolymosCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides common components (classes, methods, documentation) for packages that conduct meta-analytic corrections and sensitivity analyses for within-study and/or across-study biases in meta-analysis. See the packages 'PublicationBias', 'phacking', and 'multibiasmeta'. These package implement methods described in, respectively: Mathur & VanderWeele (2020) doi:10.31219/osf.io/s9dp6; Mathur (2022) doi:10.31219/osf.io/ezjsx; Mathur (2022) doi:10.31219/osf.io/u7vcb.

Changes in 0.1.1

New package maintainer: Peter Solymos.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("metabias", 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("mathurlabstanford/metabias")

Development version from mathurlabstanford/metabias. 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-metabias

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-metabias

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-metabias

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘params.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 47 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.1

READMEYes · 59 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.1.1Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0% with a bibliography file

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,516 · ~12/day · ~370/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

31530 days

98990 days

4.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on145 r2u3 autocran64 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mathurlabstanford/metabias ↗Organization: mathurlabstanford

0Stars

0Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

26Commits

2Commit identities

26 commits · Last activity 2023-08-18

Responsiveness

not measured

Releases over time

2023-01-17 · 12026-07-07 · 1

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/mathurlabstanford/metabias 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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-08-18 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2023-08-18

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing metabias adds 2 packages (1 with compiled code, 1.5 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rbibutils 1.1 MB, Rdpack 370 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (1)

Rdpack

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

robumeta rstan

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

Imports 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PublicationBias phacking multibiasmeta

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Peter Solymos

Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2023), Contributor · added in 0.1.1

Mika Braginsky

Author

Maya Mathur

Author

Previously maintained by Mika Braginsky (0.1.0).

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-01-18
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 6.4 KB

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("metabias")

Format

Solymos, P., Braginsky, M., & Mathur, M. (2023). metabias: Meta-Analysis for Within-Study and/or Across-Study Biases (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.metabias

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 metabias version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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