Package: metagear
Version: 0.7
Date: 2021-02-15
Title: Comprehensive Research Synthesis Tools for Systematic Reviews
        and Meta-Analysis
Authors@R: person(given = "Marc J.", family = "Lajeunesse", role = c("aut","cre"), 
    email = "lajeunesse@usf.edu", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-9678-2080"))
Description: 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        outputs from widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis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>.
Type: Package
Depends: R (>= 3.3.2)
biocViews:
Imports: Matrix, MASS, metafor (>= 1.9-9), stringr
SystemRequirements: Tcl/Tk toolkit (X11 Quarts for Mac)
VignetteBuilder: R.rsp
License: GPL (>= 2)
URL: http://lajeunesse.myweb.usf.edu/ https://github.com/mjlajeunesse/
        https://www.youtube.com/c/LajeunesseLab/
Encoding: UTF-8
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.1.1
Suggests: EBImage, ape, hexView, RCurl, testthat, R.rsp
Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev tcl tk tk-dev libx11-dev
Repository: https://mjlajeunesse.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2021-05-05 13:58:24 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/mjlajeunesse/metagear
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 37354985d3e48c8e574bf7b1592bdb8122d8cc6d
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-06-15 09:31:36 UTC; root
Author: Marc J. Lajeunesse [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9678-2080>)
Maintainer: Marc J. Lajeunesse <lajeunesse@usf.edu>