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widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis software (i.e., metawin).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 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.metagear |
| Author: |
Marc J. Lajeunesse
 [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 |
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