effectcheck

0.2.3

Statistical Consistency Checker for Published Research Results

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1.9Kdownloads / year

71.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Gilad FeldmanFirst published 2026-03-251 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A conservative, assumption-aware statistical consistency checker for published research results. Parses test statistics, effect sizes, and confidence intervals from text, PDF, HTML, and Word documents across multiple citation styles including American Psychological Association (APA), Harvard, Frontiers, PLOS ONE, Scientific Reports, Nature Human Behaviour, PeerJ, eLife, PNAS, and others. Recomputes effect sizes using all plausible variants when design is ambiguous, and validates internal consistency. Supports t-tests, F-tests/ANOVA, correlations, chi-square, z-tests, regression, and nonparametric tests. Provides 'statcheck'-compatible API functions for batch processing of files and directories. Explicitly tracks all assumptions and uncertainty in output. Detects decision errors (significance reversals) similar to 'statcheck'. Note: this package is under active development and results should be independently verified. Use is at the sole responsibility of the user. Contributions and verification reports are welcome.

Install

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

install.packages("effectcheck", 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("giladfeldman/escicheck")

Development version from giladfeldman/escicheck. 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-effectcheck

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

# 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-effectcheck

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-28
10 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-26
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ giladfeldman/escicheck

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Last activity 2026-07-22

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Checks run against github.com/giladfeldman/escicheck on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Governance and community (1)

CODEOWNERS

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

stringr stringi dplyr purrr tibble xml2 rvest glue loggergraphicsstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

shiny shinythemes DT knitr rmarkdown testthat (>= 3.0.0)MBESS effectsize jsonlite tesseract magick qpdf statcheck

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Gilad Feldman

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Gilad Feldman

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.3Latest
2026-03-25 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-25
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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