R Observatory: Metrics for metaumbrella version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metaumbrella

1.1.0Package record

Umbrella Review Package for R

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.4Kdownloads / year

7.4%test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Corentin J GoslingCRAN page ↗

A comprehensive range of facilities to perform umbrella reviews with stratification of the evidence in R. The package accomplishes this aim by building on three core functions that: (i) automatically perform all required calculations in an umbrella review (including but not limited to meta-analyses), (ii) stratify evidence according to various classification criteria, and (iii) generate a visual representation of the results. Note that if you are not familiar with R, the core features of this package are available from a web browser (https://www.metaumbrella.org/).

Changes in 1.1.0

The estimation of the effect sizes now relies on the metaConvert package.
The GRADE criteria have been reworked in collaboration with a large team with extensive experience in evidence synthesis

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("metaumbrella", 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-metaumbrella

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-metaumbrella

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-metaumbrella

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

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

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

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespace in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘pwr’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 11.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTENow
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 426 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 28 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 79%11 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 93%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 21%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,222 · ~12/day · ~364/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

41230 days

1.2K90 days

4.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on114 r2u3 autocran102 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing metaumbrella adds 103 packages (49 with compiled code, 85 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (9)

meta metaConvert pwr powerSurvEpi readxltcltkwithr writexl xtable

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

rmarkdown knitr testthat spelling DT epiR esc metafor

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

metaConvert

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Corentin J Gosling

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2021)

Paolo Fusar-Poli

Author

Joaquim Radua

Author

Aleix Solanes

Author

Releases (13)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-06-10 · diff ↗
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2022-05-06

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2022-05-06
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Package metadata

First published: 2021-12-20
Total releases: 13 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 39 KB / 12 files
Download size: 570 KB

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Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("metaumbrella")

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

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 metaumbrella version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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