R Observatory: Metrics for metaviz version 0.4.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metaviz

0.4.0

Forest Plots, Funnel Plots, and Visual Funnel Plot Inference for Meta-Analysis

0packages depend

6.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael KossmeierCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

A compilation of functions to create visually appealing and information-rich plots of meta-analytic data using 'ggplot2'. Provides functions to create forest plots, funnel plots, and many of their variants, including rainforest plots, thick forest plots, additional evidence contour funnel plots, and sunset funnel plots. In addition, functionalities for visual inference with funnel plots in the context of meta-analysis are provided. Further functionalities include plots for comparing fixed-effect and random-effects models and dedicated visualizations for three-level meta-analysis.

Changes in 0.4.0

Added new functions for visualization and assessment of within-study effect size inequality (wineq_forest, wineq_gini, and wineq_baujat).
Added viz_tlma_forest for dedicated forest plots for three-level meta-analysis.
Added viz_tlma_studyinfo for visualizing the distribution of effect sizes across studies in three-level meta-analysis.
Fixed funnelinf erroring with n > 1 (including rorschach = TRUE), where the y-axis values were assigned from the original per-study standard errors instead of the replicated lineup data, causing a size-mismatch error.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("metaviz", 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("Mkossmeier/metaviz")

Development version from Mkossmeier/metaviz. 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-metaviz

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-metaviz

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-metaviz

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: 5.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-10-03
ERROR11 OK, 2 ERROR2026-09-27
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 0.4.0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.4.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 22 (6 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 91%10 run in a plain check (2 of them under a condition) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 64%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,069 · ~18/day · ~534/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

72830 days

1.6K90 days

6.4K1 year

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Also on92 r2u8 autocran179 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mkossmeier/metaviz ↗Account: Mkossmeier

18Stars

4Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

71Commits

5Commit identities

rainforest-plotsfunnel-plots

71 commits · Last activity 2026-09-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 80%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1,248
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 2

Stars over time

2025-06-06 · 172026-07-07 · 18

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mkossmeier/metaviz on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing metaviz adds 134 packages (70 with compiled code, 130 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, sf 9.3 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (16)

ggplot2 nullabor dplyr RColorBrewer metafor gridExtra (>= 2.2.1)ggpubr magrittr DescTools ggpattern gtable moments tidyr ggbeeswarm ggnewscale scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

Cairo knitr rmarkdown psymetadata testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Michael Kossmeier

Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2017), Author

Verena Pilar

Author · added in 0.4.0

Ulrich S. Tran

Author

Martin Voracek

Author

Releases (6)

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0.4.0Latest
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2026-09-28 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
viz_tlma_forest, viz_tlma_studyinfo, wineq_baujat, wineq_forest, wineq_gini
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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 4.4.0 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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.3.1
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2020-04-09 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
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2019-01-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
viz_sunset
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
record
2018-03-16 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
rem_effect, rem_err

added 4 exports
viz_forest, viz_funnel, viz_rainforest, viz_thickforest
0.1.1
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2017-06-30 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
funnelinf
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.0
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2017-02-06

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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-06
Total releases: 6 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 6.2 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.5 MB

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citation("metaviz")

Format

Kossmeier, M., Pilar, V., Tran, U. S., & Voracek, M. (2026). metaviz: Forest Plots, Funnel Plots, and Visual Funnel Plot Inference for Meta-Analysis (Version 0.4.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.metaviz

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metaviz version 0.4.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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