R Observatory: Metrics for robvis version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

robvis

0.3.1Package record

Visualize the Results of Risk-of-Bias (ROB) Assessments

0packages dependsuggested by 1

60.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Luke McGuinnessCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Helps users in quickly visualizing risk-of-bias assessments performed as part of a systematic review. It allows users to create weighted bar-plots of the distribution of risk-of-bias judgments within each bias domain, in addition to traffic-light plots of the specific domain-level judgments for each study. The resulting figures are of publication quality and are formatted according the risk-of-bias assessment tool use to perform the assessments. Currently, the supported tools are ROB2.0 (for randomized controlled trials; Sterne et al (2019) doi:10.1136/bmj.l4898), ROBINS-I (for non-randomised studies of interventions; Sterne et al (2016) doi:10.1136/bmj.i4919), and QUADAS-2 (for diagnostic accuracy studies; Whiting et al (2011) doi:10.7326/0003-4819-155-8-201110180-00009).

Changes in 0.3.1

Updated maintainer contact address
Updated CITATION file to use bibentry() instead of deprecated citEntry()
Updated outdated URLs in the README

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("robvis", 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("mcguinlu/robvis")

Development version from mcguinlu/robvis. 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-robvis

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-robvis

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-robvis

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: 2.8 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-06
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMEYes · 538 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileYes · software entry only

The repository also keeps web-only articles.

Help pages: 8includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to robvis

How these are measured

Downloads

60.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,678 · ~166/day · ~5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

4.2K30 days

13.1K90 days

60.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on128 r2u5 autocran86 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

mcguinlu/robvis ↗Account: mcguinlu

80Stars

31Forks

19Open issues

6Open PRs

1Releases

510Commits

11Commit identities

risk-of-biasevidence-synthesissystematic-reviewsvisualisation

510 commits · Last activity 2026-09-02 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (0.3.0.900) than CRAN on 2026-10-25

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 158
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-07-31 · 642026-09-03 · 80

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mcguinlu/robvis on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (4)

Code of conductContributing guideIssue templatesPR template

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-04-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

GitHub Copilotfirst seen 2026-04-13
Pull request: opened by its own account

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing robvis adds 29 packages (15 with compiled code, 28 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (3)

ggplot2 tidyr scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Luke McGuinness

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.0 (2019)

Emily Kothe

Contributor

Releases (2)

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0.3.1Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-11-22
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 1.9 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.2 MB

Appears in task views

Meta-Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("robvis")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

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 robvis version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-26, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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