metasplines

0.1.1

Pool Literature-Based and Individual Participant Data Based Spline Estimates

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Overview

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Maintained by Tommi HärkänenFirst published 2025-07-212 releasesCRAN page ↗

Pooling estimates reported in meta-analyses (literature-based, LB) and estimates based on individual participant data (IPD) is not straight-forward as the details of the LB nonlinear function estimate are not usually reported. This package pools the nonlinear IPD dose-response estimates based on a natural cubic spline from lm or glm with the pointwise LB estimates and their estimated variances. Details will be presented in Härkänen, Tapanainen, Sares-Jäske, Männistö, Kaartinen and Paalanen (2026) "Novel pooling method for nonlinear cohort analysis and meta-analysis estimates: Predicting health outcomes based on climate-friendly diets" Epidemiology doi:10.1097/EDE.0000000000001932.

Install

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

install.packages("metasplines", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-metasplines

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-metasplines

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-metasplines

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-03-10
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Documentation

READMEYes · 11 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.2.0

Imports (7)

rlang dplyr tidyr tibble stringr meta optimization

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown splines2

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none

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Maintainer (1)

Tommi Härkänen

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Authors (1)

Tommi Härkänen

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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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: 2025-07-21
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.2.0
Download size: 73 KB
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