R Observatory: Metrics for selectMeta version 1.0.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

selectMeta

1.0.9Package record

Estimation of Weight Functions in Meta Analysis

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3Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Kaspar RufibachCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Publication bias, the fact that studies identified for inclusion in a meta analysis do not represent all studies on the topic of interest, is commonly recognized as a threat to the validity of the results of a meta analysis. One way to explicitly model publication bias is via selection models or weighted probability distributions. In this package we provide implementations of several parametric and nonparametric weight functions. The novelty in Rufibach (2011) is the proposal of a non-increasing variant of the nonparametric weight function of Dear & Begg (1992). The new approach potentially offers more insight in the selection process than other methods, but is more flexible than parametric approaches. To maximize the log-likelihood function proposed by Dear & Begg (1992) under a monotonicity constraint we use a differential evolution algorithm proposed by Ardia et al (2010a, b) and implemented in Mullen et al (2009). In addition, we offer a method to compute a confidence interval for the overall effect size theta, adjusted for selection bias as well as a function that computes the simulation-based p-value to assess the null hypothesis of no selection as described in Rufibach (2011, Section 6).

Install

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

install.packages("selectMeta", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-selectmeta

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-selectMeta

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-selectMeta

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: 54 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.9

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 11includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%2 never run · 5 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 88%
Help pages citing references: 100%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,524 · ~8/day · ~251/mo

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33830 days

78590 days

3K1 year

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing selectMeta adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 64 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: DEoptim 64 KB.

Depends (1)

DEoptim

Imports (2)

graphicsstats

LinkingTo (0)

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Suggests (0)

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Enhances (0)

none

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People (1)

Kaspar Rufibach

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2010)

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DearBegg, DearBeggLoglik, DearBeggMonotone, DearBeggMonotoneCItheta, DearBeggMonotonePvalSelection, DearBeggProfileLL, DearBeggToMinimize, DearBeggToMinimizeProfile, dPval, effectBias, Hij, IyenGreenLoglikT, IyenGreenMLE, IyenGreenWeight, normalizeT, pPool, pPval, qPval, rPval, weightLine
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Package metadata

First published: 2010-11-15
Total releases: 10 / 16 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Bundled data: 0.8 KB / 2 files
Download size: 15 KB

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Format

Rufibach, K. (2025). selectMeta: Estimation of Weight Functions in Meta Analysis (Version 1.0.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.selectMeta

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for selectMeta version 1.0.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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