metagear: Comprehensive Research Synthesis Tools for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis

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effect sizes with a common control); and finally summaries that replicate analyses and outputs from widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis software (i.e., metawin).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>.

Version: 0.7
Depends: R (≥ 3.3.2)
Imports: Matrix, MASS, metafor (≥ 1.9-9), stringr
Suggests: EBImage, ape, hexView, RCurl, testthat, R.rsp
Published: 2021-02-15
Author: Marc J. Lajeunesse ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Marc J. Lajeunesse <lajeunesse at usf.edu>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: http://lajeunesse.myweb.usf.edu/ https://github.com/mjlajeunesse/ https://www.youtube.com/c/LajeunesseLab/
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: Tcl/Tk toolkit (X11 Quarts for Mac)
Citation: metagear citation info
Materials: README NEWS
In views: MetaAnalysis, MissingData
CRAN checks: metagear results

Documentation:

Reference manual: metagear.pdf
Vignettes: Basic examples of screening studies, extracting data and meta-analysis with the metagear package for R

Downloads:

Package source: metagear_0.7.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: metagear_0.7.zip, r-release: metagear_0.7.zip, r-oldrel: metagear_0.7.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): metagear_0.7.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): metagear_0.7.tgz, r-release (x86_64): metagear_0.7.tgz
Old sources: metagear archive

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