R Observatory: Metrics for metainsight version 7.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metainsight

7.1.0

A 'shiny' Application for Network Meta-Analysis

0packages depend

663downloads / year

9.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alex SuttonFirst published 2026-06-151 releasesCRAN page ↗

Conduct network meta-analyses through a graphical user interface using 'bnma', 'gemtc' and 'netmeta' with additional analysis provided by 'meta' and 'metafor'. Frequentist, Bayesian, meta-regression and baseline risk meta-regression analyses can all be conducted using a consistent data structure and terminology. Many options are provided for downloading publication-ready outputs and analyses can be reproduced outside of the application by downloading a 'quarto' file. The interface was generated using 'shinyscholar'. The initial version of the app was described by Owen et al. (2018) doi:10.1002/jrsm.1373, Bayesian ranking visualisations were described by Nevill et al. (2023) doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.02.016 and metaregression was described by Morris et al. (2025) doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111839.

Install

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

install.packages("metainsight", 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-metainsight

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-metainsight

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-metainsight

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.03

9.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

41

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-06-16
6 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,559 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 95%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

663

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,820 · ~2/day · ~55/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

46 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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R >= 4.1.0

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jsonvalidate mockery pdftools shinytest2 testthat

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People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Alex Sutton

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Authors (9)

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Contributors (2)

Nicola Cooper

Contributor

Suzanne Freeman

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

7.1.0Latest
2026-06-15 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-15
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 572 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Sutton, A., Bradbury, N., Cooper, N., Field, R., Freeman, S., Morris, T., Nevill, C., Nevill, J., Owen, R., Smart, S. E. H., & Xin, Y. (2026). metainsight: A 'shiny' Application for Network Meta-Analysis (Version 7.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.metainsight

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metainsight version 7.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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