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):

common 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 Web' and 'RevMan 5';
prediction interval, Hartung-Knapp 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 release on GitHub:

Installation using R package remotes:

install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("guido-s/meta", ref = "develop", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Bug Reports:

You can report bugs on GitHub under Issues

or by using the R command

bug.report(package = "meta")

(which is not supported in RStudio).