R Observatory: Metrics for metavcov version 2.1.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metavcov

2.1.5

Computing Variances and Covariances, Visualization and Missing Data Solution for Multivariate Meta-Analysis

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2.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Min LuFirst published 2017-02-208 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Collection of functions to compute within-study covariances for different effect sizes, data visualization, and single and multiple imputations for missing data. Effect sizes include correlation (r), mean difference (MD), standardized mean difference (SMD), log odds ratio (logOR), log risk ratio (logRR), and risk difference (RD).

Install

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

install.packages("metavcov", 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("luminwin/metavcov")

Development version from luminwin/metavcov. 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-metavcov

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-metavcov

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-metavcov

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

1

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-06-08
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 91%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 91%

Downloads

2.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,697 · ~8/day · ~238/mo

Releases R versions

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21630 days

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2.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ luminwin/metavcov

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1Releases

43Commits

1Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 43 commits · Last activity 2023-06-23

Releases over time

2021-08-21 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/luminwin/metavcov on 2026-08-23.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

mixmeta metaSEM mvmeta mice

Enhances (0)

none

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Nothing depends on this yet.

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Listed in earlier versions (1)

Min Lu

no longer listed · 0.1 to 2.1.5

Package Timeline

8 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-20
Total releases: 8 / 9 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 2.6 KB / 2 files
Download size: 28 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metavcov version 2.1.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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