R Observatory: Metrics for mvnma version 0.3-0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mvnma

0.3-0Package record

Multivariate Network Meta-Analysis using Bayesian Methods

0packages depend

1.7Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Theodoros EvrenoglouCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Tools to conduct Bayesian multivariate network meta-analysis providing - the single correlation coefficient model by Efthimiou et al. (2015) doi:10.1093/biostatistics/kxu030; - per-outcome consistency checks using the node-splitting method (Dias et al., 2010) doi:10.1002/sim.3767; - per-outcome treatment hierarchies using the surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA), the probability of best value, or median (or mean) ranks (Salanti et al., 2011) doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.03.016; - across-outcomes benefit-risk assessment using the VišeKriterijumska Optimizacija I Kompromisno Rešenje (VIKOR) method (Opricovic & Tzeng, 2004) doi:10.1016/S0377-2217(03)00020-1; - convergence checks using trace plots, density plots, or the R-hat statistic; - forest plots of treatment estimates and consistency checks, scatter plots of per-outcome rankings, Hasse diagrams (Carlsen & Bruggemann, 2014) doi:10.1002/cem.2569 to visualize the partial order of the treatments across all outcomes.

Changes in 0.3-0

Major changes

mvnma():
accepts one or more outcomes and studies with two or more arms
a common-effects model can be fitted
between-study heterogeneity parameter(s) can be prespecified
New functions netsplit.mvnma(), print.netsplit.mvnma(), and forest.netsplit.mvnma() support consistency checks using the node-splitting method.

User-visible changes

mvnma():
new argument 'pooled' to fit a common-effects or random-effects model
new argument 'psi.preset' to prespecify the between-study heterogeneity parameter(s)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mvnma", 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("TEvrenoglou/mvnma")

Development version from TEvrenoglou/mvnma. 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-mvnma

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-mvnma

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-mvnma

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: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-11
ERROR8 OK, 3 ERROR2026-05-22
OK6 OK2026-05-20

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3-0

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3-0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 92%11 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 54%

How these are measured

Downloads

1.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,476 · ~5/day · ~140/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38830 days

1.1K90 days

1.7K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

tevrenoglou/mvnma ↗Account: TEvrenoglou

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

157Commits

4Commit identities

157 commits · Last activity 2026-09-18 · Default branch at 0.3-1, ahead of CRAN 0.3-0 (checked 2026-10-25)

Responsiveness

not measured

Stars over time

2025-07-08 · 12026-07-07 · 1

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/tevrenoglou/mvnma on 2026-10-25.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mvnma adds 77 packages (41 with compiled code, 71 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0.0meta netmeta

Imports (8)

R2jags coda dplyr magrittr matrixStats rlist ggplot2 forcats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (2)

Theodoros Evrenoglou

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-0 (2026)

Guido Schwarzer

Author

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-05-19
Total releases: 3 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 840 KB

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citation("mvnma")

Format

Evrenoglou, T., & Schwarzer, G. (2026). mvnma: Multivariate Network Meta-Analysis using Bayesian Methods (Version 0.3-0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.mvnma

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for mvnma version 0.3-0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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