metaconfoundr

0.1.2

Visualize 'Confounder' Control in Meta-Analyses

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4Kdownloads / year

98.6%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Malcolm BarrettFirst published 2021-10-123 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Visualize 'confounder' control in meta-analysis. 'metaconfoundr' is an approach to evaluating bias in studies used in meta-analyses based on the causal inference framework. Study groups create a causal diagram displaying their assumptions about the scientific question. From this, they develop a list of important 'confounders'. Then, they evaluate whether studies controlled for these variables well. 'metaconfoundr' is a toolkit to facilitate this process and visualize the results as heat maps, traffic light plots, and more.

Install

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

install.packages("metaconfoundr", 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("malcolmbarrett/metaconfoundr")

Development version from malcolmbarrett/metaconfoundr. 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-metaconfoundr

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-metaconfoundr

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 8.09

98.6%

Coverage · measured lines

96%

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NOTE2026-08-01
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OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 304 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,424 · ~11/day · ~334/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ malcolmbarrett/metaconfoundr

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114 commits · Last activity 2023-01-17

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cran-comments.md

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

22 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (11)

dplyr forcats ggplot2 magrittr purrr rlang shiny stringr tibble tidyr (>= 1.0.0)tidyselect

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none

Suggests (11)

covr knitr metafor patchwork readr rio rmarkdown roxygen2 spelling testthat vdiffr

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People (3)

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Malcolm Barrett

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Malcolm Barrett

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Julie M. Petersen

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Ludovic Trinquart

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-10-12
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 3.1 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.7 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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