R Observatory: Metrics for netmeta version 3.6-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

netmeta

3.6-1

Network Meta-Analysis using Frequentist Methods

22packages depend

142.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Guido SchwarzerFirst published 2013-07-2447 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A comprehensive set of functions providing frequentist methods for network meta-analysis (Balduzzi et al., 2023) doi:10.18637/jss.v106.i02 and supporting Schwarzer et al. (2015) doi:10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0, Chapter 8 "Network Meta-Analysis": - frequentist network meta-analysis following Rücker (2012) doi:10.1002/jrsm.1058; - additive network meta-analysis for combinations of treatments (Rücker et al., 2020) doi:10.1002/bimj.201800167; - network meta-analysis of binary data using the Mantel-Haenszel or non-central hypergeometric distribution method (Efthimiou et al., 2019) doi:10.1002/sim.8158, or penalised logistic regression (Evrenoglou et al., 2022) doi:10.1002/sim.9562; - rankograms and ranking of treatments by the Surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) (Salanti et al., 2013) doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2010.03.016; - ranking of treatments using P-scores (frequentist analogue of SUCRAs without resampling) according to Rücker & Schwarzer (2015) doi:10.1186/s12874-015-0060-8; - split direct and indirect evidence to check consistency (Dias et al., 2010) doi:10.1002/sim.3767, (Efthimiou et al., 2019) doi:10.1002/sim.8158; - scatter plot to visualize local inconsistency (Wilson et al., 2026) doi:10.1017/rsm.2026.10082; - league table with network meta-analysis results; - 'comparison-adjusted' funnel plot (Chaimani & Salanti, 2012) doi:10.1002/jrsm.57; - net heat plot and design-based decomposition of Cochran's Q according to Krahn et al. (2013) doi:10.1186/1471-2288-13-35; - measures characterizing the flow of evidence between two treatments by König et al. (2013) doi:10.1002/sim.6001; - automated drawing of network graphs described in Rücker & Schwarzer (2016) doi:10.1002/jrsm.1143; - partial order of treatment rankings ('poset') and Hasse diagram for 'poset' (Carlsen & Bruggemann, 2014) doi:10.1002/cem.2569; (Rücker & Schwarzer, 2017) doi:10.1002/jrsm.1270; - contribution matrix as described in Papakonstantinou et al. (2018) doi:10.12688/f1000research.14770.3 and Davies et al. (2022) doi:10.1002/sim.9346; - network meta-regression with a single continuous or binary covariate (Kwarteng et al., 2026) doi:10.21203/rs.3.rs-8235913/v1; - subgroup network meta-analysis.

Install

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

install.packages("netmeta", 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("guido-s/netmeta")

Development version from guido-s/netmeta. 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-netmeta

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-netmeta

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-netmeta

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 10.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

16

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 78%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 76%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

142.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,212 · ~390/day · ~11.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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27.8K90 days

142.3K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ guido-s/netmeta

40Stars

16Forks

1Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

799Commits

7Contributors

meta-analysisnetwork-meta-analysiscranrrstudio

799 commits · Last activity 2026-08-10 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/guido-s/netmeta on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.0.0meta

Imports (15)

MatrixmetaforMASSmvtnorm magic igraph ggplot2 colorspacegriddplyr magrittrmethodsstringr tidyr ggrepel

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

Rgraphviz graph rgl gridExtra tictoc writexl R.rsp cccp brglm2 crossnma gemtc rmarkdown knitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

22direct

0indirect

crossnma mtrank mvnma netdose nmarank NMAforest NMAoutlier RepeatedHighDim fragility metainsight poth rankinma ssifs survNMA viscomp MBNMAdose OssaNMA RcmdrPlugin.EZR meta metabook metadat rnmamod

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Guido Schwarzer

Author, Maintainer

Authors (7)

Guido Schwarzer

Author, Maintainer

Annabel Davies

Author · added in 2.0-0

Orestis Efthimiou

Author · added in 1.0-0

Ulrike Krahn

Author · added in 0.4-0

Jochem König

Author · added in 0.5-0

Theodoros Papakonstantinou

Author · added in 1.5-0

Gerta Rücker

Author · added in 0.4-0

Contributors (3)

Krzysztof Ciomek

Contributor · added in 3.1-0

Theodoros Evrenoglou

Contributor · added in 3.0-2

Nana-adjoa Kwarteng

Contributor · added in 3.2-0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Gerta Ruecker

no longer listed · 0.3-0 to 0.3-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2013-07-24
Total releases: 47 / 13 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) | file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 13 files
Download size: 893 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Clinical Trial Design, Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Meta-Analysis

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Schwarzer, G., Ciomek, K., Davies, A., Efthimiou, O., Evrenoglou, T., Krahn, U., Kwarteng, N., König, J., Papakonstantinou, T., & Rücker, G. (2026). netmeta: Network Meta-Analysis using Frequentist Methods (Version 3.6-1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.netmeta

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