R Observatory: Metrics for miniMeta version 0.3.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

miniMeta

0.3.2

Web Application to Run Meta-Analyses

0packages depend

2.5Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Theodore LytrasFirst published 2020-03-013 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Shiny web application to run meta-analyses. Essentially a graphical front-end to package 'meta' for R. Can be useful as an educational tool, and for quickly analyzing and sharing meta-analyses. Provides output to quickly fill in GRADE (Grading of Recommendations, Assessment, Development and Evaluations) Summary-of-Findings tables. Importantly, it allows further processing of the results inside R, in case more specific analyses are needed.

Install

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

install.packages("miniMeta", 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("thlytras/miniMeta")

Development version from thlytras/miniMeta. 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-minimeta

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-miniMeta

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-miniMeta

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

14

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

READMEYes · 216 wordsVignettesYes · staticpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 82%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 90%
References docs: 8%

Downloads

2.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,963 · ~7/day · ~210/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16630 days

66190 days

2.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ thlytras/minimeta

6Stars

2Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

59Commits

3Contributors

shinyrmeta-analysismeta-analysesrandomized-controlled-trialsobservational-studiessample-size-calculation

59 commits · Last activity 2024-06-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-08-22 · 52026-07-07 · 6

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/thlytras/minimeta on 2026-08-16.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0meta

Imports (13)

shiny shinyjs shinyWidgets colourpicker rhandsontable metafor markdown WriteXLS readxl jsonlitegrDevicesmethodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Theodore Lytras

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Theodore Lytras

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 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
0.3.2Latest
2024-06-23 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.3.1
2024-01-14 · diff ↗
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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
0.2
2020-03-01
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-01
Total releases: 3 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 6.2 KB / 2 files
Download size: 288 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("miniMeta")

Format

Lytras, T. (2024). miniMeta: Web Application to Run Meta-Analyses (Version 0.3.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.miniMeta

This is what citation() produces when a package has no citation file of its own. If it prints something else, use that.

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 miniMeta version 0.3.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-16. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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