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effect sizes with a common control); and finally summaries that replicate analyses and outputs from widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis software (i.e., metawin).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>.
Versions across snapshots
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0.7 |
rolling linux/jammy R-4.5 | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
934.3 KiB |
0.7 |
rolling linux/noble R-4.5 | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
934.1 KiB |
0.7 |
rolling source/ R- | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
755.6 KiB |
0.7 |
latest linux/jammy R-4.5 | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
934.3 KiB |
0.7 |
latest linux/noble R-4.5 | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
934.1 KiB |
0.7 |
latest source/ R- | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
755.6 KiB |
0.7 |
2026-04-26 source/ R- | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
755.6 KiB |
0.7 |
2026-04-23 source/ R- | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
755.6 KiB |
0.7 |
2026-04-09 windows/windows R-4.5 | metagear_0.7.zip |
940.0 KiB |
0.7 |
2025-04-20 source/ R- | metagear_0.7.tar.gz |
755.6 KiB |