orchaRd

2.2.1

Visualizing Meta-Analyses with Orchard Plots and Prediction Intervals

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205downloads / year

94.9%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel NobleFirst published 2026-07-231 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Generates prediction intervals and orchard plots for meta-analytic and meta-regression models fitted with the 'metafor' package. Orchard plots augment classic forest plots by displaying individual effect sizes together with group means and their confidence and prediction intervals, providing an enhanced visualization of meta-analytic data for ecology, evolution, and beyond. Methods are described in Nakagawa et al. (2023) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.14152.

Install

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

install.packages("orchaRd", 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("daniel1noble/orchaRd")

Development version from daniel1noble/orchaRd. 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-orchard

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-orchaRd

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 14.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.76

94.9%

Coverage · measured lines

97%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-24
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 464 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 12%

Downloads

205

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Rank #24,316 · ~1/day · ~17/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ daniel1noble/orchard

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778 commits · Last activity 2026-07-24

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4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

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cran-comments.md

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Evidence

claude: on or before 2026-04-18 · evidence B, D

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2

Imports (14)

ape dplyr emmeans ggbeeswarm ggplot2 latex2exp magrittrMASSmetafor progress rWishartstatstesterutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

broom glmmTMB gt knitr lme4 metadat moments patchwork PearsonDS purrr R.rsp rmarkdown testthat tibble

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Daniel Noble

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Authors (2)

Daniel Noble

Author, Maintainer

Shinichi Nakagawa

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Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

2.2.1Latest
2026-07-23 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-23
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2
Bundled data: 217 KB / 7 files
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