multibiasmeta

0.2.2

Sensitivity Analysis for Multiple Biases in Meta-Analyses

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2.5Kdownloads / year

94.4%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Peter SolymosFirst published 2023-02-084 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Meta-analyses can be compromised by studies' internal biases (e.g., confounding in nonrandomized studies) as well as by publication bias. This package conducts sensitivity analyses for the joint effects of these biases (per Mathur (2022) doi:10.31219/osf.io/u7vcb). These sensitivity analyses address two questions: (1) For a given severity of internal bias across studies and of publication bias, how much could the results change?; and (2) For a given severity of publication bias, how severe would internal bias have to be, hypothetically, to attenuate the results to the null or by a given amount?

Install

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

install.packages("multibiasmeta", 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("mathurlabstanford/multibiasmeta")

Development version from mathurlabstanford/multibiasmeta. 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-multibiasmeta

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-multibiasmeta

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-multibiasmeta

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.60

94.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 128 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,799 · ~7/day · ~212/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mathurlabstanford/multibiasmeta

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78Commits

3Contributors

78 commits · Last activity 2023-08-21

Releases over time

2023-02-06 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mathurlabstanford/multibiasmeta on 2026-07-30.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

dplyr EValue metabias metafor purrr Rdpack rlang robumeta

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

glue knitr phacking PublicationBias rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Peter Solymos

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Authors (2)

Mika Braginsky

Author

Maya Mathur

Author

Contributors (1)

Peter Solymos

Maintainer, Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Package Timeline

4 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.2Latest
2023-08-23 · current release · diff ↗
0.2.1
2023-08-21 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2023-08-18 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2023-08-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-06-10
issues were not corrected in time
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.0
2023-02-08
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-08
Total releases: 4 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 2.5 KB / 1 file
Download size: 58 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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