R Observatory: Metrics for vcmeta version 1.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

vcmeta

1.6.0

Varying Coefficient Meta-Analysis

0packages depend

4Kdownloads / year

86.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Douglas G. BonettFirst published 2021-08-217 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements functions for varying coefficient meta-analysis methods. These methods do not assume effect size homogeneity. Subgroup effect size comparisons, general linear effect size contrasts, and linear models of effect sizes based on varying coefficient methods can be used to describe effect size heterogeneity. Varying coefficient meta-analysis methods do not require the unrealistic assumptions of the traditional fixed-effect and random-effects meta-analysis methods. For details see: Statistical Methods for Psychologists, Volume 5, https://dgbonett.sites.ucsc.edu/.

Install

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

install.packages("vcmeta", 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("dgbonett/vcmeta")

Development version from dgbonett/vcmeta. 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-vcmeta

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-vcmeta

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-vcmeta

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.30

86.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 121 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 96%

Downloads

4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,688 · ~11/day · ~332/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dgbonett/vcmeta

1Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

342Commits

2Contributors

342 commits · Last activity 2026-05-15

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/dgbonett/vcmeta on 2026-08-16.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

statsmathjaxr Rdpack ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Douglas G. Bonett

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Douglas G. Bonett

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

Robert J. Calin-Jageman

Contributor

Package Timeline

7 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-08-21
Total releases: 7 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 287 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Bonett, D. G., & Calin-Jageman, R. J. (2026). vcmeta: Varying Coefficient Meta-Analysis (Version 1.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.vcmeta

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for vcmeta version 1.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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