R Observatory: Metrics for metadat version 1.6-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metadat

1.6-0Package record

Meta-Analysis Datasets

3packages dependsuggested by 15

466.3Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Wolfgang ViechtbauerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A collection of meta-analysis datasets for teaching purposes, illustrating/testing meta-analytic methods, and validating published analyses.

Changes in 1.6-0

added dat.demir2022, dat.chiarito2020, dat.karner2014, dat.meeker2017, dat.nissen2007, dat.bauer2002, dat.huber2000, dat.feng2019, dat.greb2008, dat.greenland1992, dat.higgins2008, dat.thompson1999, dat.lloyd2010, dat.moore1998, dat.poole2003, dat.quan2000, dat.steurer2006, dat.tian2009, dat.rivera2025, dat.anker2025, dat.metap, and dat.berkey1998r
minor adjustments to dat.furukawa2003, dat.linde2016, and dat.spooner2002
fixed problem with datsearch() failing when using multiple search terms

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("metadat", 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("wviechtb/metadat")

Development version from wviechtb/metadat. 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-metadat

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-metadat

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-metadat

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-07

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-23
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.6-0

READMEYes · 694 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.6-0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 116 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%114 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: not tracked
Return-value docs: not tracked
Help pages citing references: 53%

How these are measured

Downloads

466.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #555 · ~1.3K/day · ~38.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40.4K30 days

123.6K90 days

466.3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on4.5K r2u6 autocran11.5K conda_forge284 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

wviechtb/metadat ↗Account: wviechtb

34Stars

25Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

2Releases

406Commits

13Commit identities

r-packagemeta-analysisdatasetsrdataset

406 commits · Last activity 2026-07-17 · +3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.7-2, ahead of CRAN 1.6-0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2024-09-15 · 292026-10-16 · 34

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/wviechtb/metadat on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-07-17

pkgdown site last built 2026-07-17

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

20 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing metadat adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 3.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: mathjaxr 3.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (3)

utilstoolsmathjaxr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (19)

metafor numDeriv BiasedUrn dfoptim igraph ape testthat digest lme4 clubSandwich meta netmeta mvtnorm gridExtra rms bayesmeta ellipse metasens mada

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

97indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 2

Suggested by 15

Show all 18 packagesHide all 18 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

metafor MetaUtility metaforest

Suggests, most downloaded first

insight performance meta clubSandwich EValue restriktor RoBMA puniform orchaRd drmTMB drmeta ggextreme aedl publipha metaselection

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (7)

Wolfgang Viechtbauer

Author, Maintainer since 1.0-0 (2021)

Author

Author

Author

Author

Data contributor · added in 1.6-0

Guido Schwarzer

Data contributor · added in 1.2-0

Releases (4)

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1.6-0Latest
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2026-04-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.4-0
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2025-02-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.2-0
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2022-04-06 · diff ↗
1.0-0
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2021-08-20
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-20
Total releases: 4 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 281 KB / 114 files
Download size: 1.1 MB

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("metadat")

Format

Viechtbauer, W., Hamilton, W. K., Noble, D., Röver, C., Schwarzer, G., Senior, A., & White, T. (2026). metadat: Meta-Analysis Datasets (Version 1.6-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.metadat

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 metadat version 1.6-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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