shamim-active / meta

Official Git repository of R package meta

meta: General Package for Meta-Analysis

Official Git repository of R package meta

Description

User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker, "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015), http://meta-analysis-with-r.org/ :

• fixed effect and random effects meta-analysis;
• several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble);
• statistical tests and trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis;
• import data from 'RevMan 5';
• prediction interval, Hartung-Knapp and Paule-Mandel method for random effects model;
• cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis;
• meta-regression;
• generalised linear mixed models;
• produce forest plot summarising several (subgroup) meta-analyses.

References

Schwarzer G, Carpenter JR and Rücker G (2015): Meta-Analysis with R (Use-R!). Springer International Publishing, Switzerland

Installation

Current official release:

install.packages("meta")

Current beta / GitHub release:

Installation using R package devtools:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("guido-s/meta")

Bug Reports:

bug.report(package = "meta")

The bug.report function is not supported in RStudio. Please send an email to Guido Schwarzer [e-mail] if you use RStudio.

You can also report bugs on GitHub under Issues.