metaHelper

1.0.1

Transforms Statistical Measures Commonly Used for Meta-Analysis

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Overview

About

Maintained by Robert EmprechtingerFirst published 2024-07-282 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Helps calculate statistical values commonly used in meta-analysis. It provides several methods to compute different forms of standardized mean differences, as well as other values such as standard errors and standard deviations. The methods used in this package are described in the following references: Altman D G, Bland J M. (2011) doi:10.1136/bmj.d2090 Borenstein, M., Hedges, L.V., Higgins, J.P.T. and Rothstein, H.R. (2009) doi:10.1002/9780470743386.ch4 Chinn S. (2000) doi:10.1002/1097-0258(20001130)19:22%3C3127::aid-sim784%3E3.0.co;2-m Cochrane Handbook (2011) https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/archive/v5.1.0 Cooper, H., Hedges, L. V., & Valentine, J. C. (2009) https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-05060-000 Cohen, J. (1977) https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-98267-000 Ellis, P.D. (2009) https://www.psychometrica.de/effect_size.html Goulet-Pelletier, J.-C., & Cousineau, D. (2018) doi:10.20982/tqmp.14.4.p242 Hedges, L. V. (1981) doi:10.2307/1164588 Hedges L. V., Olkin I. (1985) doi:10.1016/C2009-0-03396-0 Murad M H, Wang Z, Zhu Y, Saadi S, Chu H, Lin L et al. (2023) doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-073141 Mayer M (2023) https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/confintr/html/ci_proportion.html Stackoverflow (2014) https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/82720/confidence-interval-around-binomial-estimate-of-0-or-1 Stackoverflow (2018) https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/338043.

Install

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

install.packages("metaHelper", 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("RobertEmprechtinger/metaHelper")

Development version from RobertEmprechtinger/metaHelper. 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-metahelper

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-metaHelper

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-metaHelper

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

Health

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Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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READMEYes · 231 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2024-07-28
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.6.0
Download size: 20 KB
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