metagear
Comprehensive Research Synthesis Tools for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis
Description
Functionalities for facilitating systematic reviews, data extractions, and meta-analyses. It includes a GUI (graphical user interface) to help screen the abstracts and titles of bibliographic data; tools to assign screening effort across multiple collaborators/reviewers and to assess inter- reviewer reliability; tools to help automate the download and retrieval of journal PDF articles from online databases; figure and image extractions from PDFs; web scraping of citations; automated and manual data extraction from scatter-plot and bar-plot images; PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) flow diagrams; simple imputation tools to fill gaps in incomplete or missing study parameters; generation of random effects sizes for Hedges' d, log response ratio, odds ratio, and correlation coefficients for Monte Carlo experiments; covariance equations for modelling dependencies among multiple effect sizes (e.g., effect sizes with a common control); and finally summaries that replicate analyses and outputs from widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis software (i.e., metawin). Funding for this package was supported by National Science Foundation (NSF) grants DBI-1262545 and DEB-1451031. CITE: Lajeunesse, M.J. (2016) Facilitating systematic reviews, data extraction and meta-analysis with the metagear package for R. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 7, 323-330 <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12472>.
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| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang | NOTE |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc | NOTE |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang | OK |
| r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc | OK |
| r-devel-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-devel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-arm64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 | OK |
| r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 | OK |
| r-patched-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-linux-x86_64 | OK |
| r-release-macos-arm64 | OK |
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Maintainer: ‘Marc J. Lajeunesse <lajeunesse@usf.edu>’ Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry(). Please use bibentry() instead.
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Marc J. Lajeunesse <lajeunesse@usf.edu>’ Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry(). Please use bibentry() instead.
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NOTE 12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 9, 2026
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Marc J. Lajeunesse <lajeunesse@usf.edu>’ Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry(). Please use bibentry() instead.
CRAN incoming feasibility
Maintainer: ‘Marc J. Lajeunesse <lajeunesse@usf.edu>’ Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry(). Please use bibentry() instead.