R Observatory: Metrics for metaviz version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

metaviz

0.3.1

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

0packages depend

6.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael KossmeierFirst published 2017-02-065 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A compilation of functions to create visually appealing and information-rich plots of meta-analytic data using 'ggplot2'. Currently allows to create forest plots, funnel plots, and many of their variants, such as rainforest plots, thick forest plots, additional evidence contour funnel plots, and sunset funnel plots. In addition, functionalities for visual inference with the funnel plot in the context of meta-analysis are provided.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 4.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 83%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 71%

Downloads

6.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,907 · ~18/day · ~563/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

39430 days

1.3K90 days

6.8K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mkossmeier/metaviz

18Stars

3Forks

9Open issues

1Open PRs

3Releases

57Commits

2Contributors

rainforest-plotsfunnel-plots

57 commits · Last activity 2020-04-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-06 · 172026-07-07 · 18

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/mkossmeier/metaviz on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (7)

ggplot2 nullabor dplyr RColorBrewer metafor gridExtra (>= 2.2.1)ggpubr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

Cairo knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Kossmeier

Maintainer, Author

Authors (3)

Michael Kossmeier

Maintainer, Author

Ulrich S. Tran

Author

Martin Voracek

Author

Package Timeline

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

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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
0.3.1Latest
2020-04-09 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
2019-01-14 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.2.0
2018-03-16 · diff ↗
0.1.1
2017-06-30 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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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: 5 / 9 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Bundled data: 6.2 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.5 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("metaviz")

Format

Kossmeier, M., Tran, U. S., & Voracek, M. (2020). metaviz: Forest Plots, Funnel Plots, and Visual Funnel Plot Inference for Meta-Analysis (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.metaviz

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for metaviz version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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