Implementation of two p-value combination techniques (inverse normal and Fisher methods). A vignette is provided to explain how to perform a meta-analysis from two independent RNA-seq experiments.

Regression methods for the meta-SDT model. The package implements methods for cognitive experiments of metacognition as described in Kristensen, S. B., Sandberg, K., & Bibby, B. M. (2020). Regression methods for metacognitive sensitivity. Journal of Mathematical Psychology, 94. <doi:10.1016/j.jmp.2019.102297>.

Data sets from a variety of biological sample matrices, analysed using a number of mass spectrometry based metabolomic analytical techniques. The example data sets are stored remotely using GitHub releases <https://github.com/aberHRML/metaboData/releases> which can be accessed from R using the package. The package also includes the abr1 FIE-MS data set from the FIEmspro package <https://users.aber.ac.uk/jhd/> <doi:10.1038/nprot.2007.511>.

Conduct random forests-based meta-analysis, obtain partial dependence plots for metaforest and classic meta-analyses, and cross-validate and tune metaforest- and classic meta-analyses in conjunction with the caret package. A requirement of classic meta-analysis is that the studies being aggregated are conceptually similar, and ideally, close replications. However, in many fields, there is substantial heterogeneity between studies on the same topic. Classic meta-analysis lacks the power to assess more than a handful of univariate moderators. MetaForest, by contrast, has substantial power to explore heterogeneity in meta-analysis. It can identify important moderators from a larger set of potential candidates (Van Lissa, 2020). This is an appealing quality, because many meta-analyses have small sample sizes. Moreover, MetaForest yields a measure of variable importance which can be used to identify important moderators, and offers partial prediction plots to explore the shape of the marginal relationship between moderators and effect size.

This package implements several methods to meta-analyze studies that report the sample median of the outcome. The methods described by McGrath et al. (2019) <doi:10.1002/sim.8013>, Ozturk and Balakrishnan (2020) <doi:10.1002/sim.8738>, and McGrath et al. (2020a) <doi:10.1002/bimj.201900036> can be applied to directly meta-analyze the median or difference of medians between groups. Additionally, a number of methods (e.g., McGrath et al. (2020b) <doi:10.1177/0962280219889080>, Cai et al. (2021) <doi:10.1177/09622802211047348>, and McGrath et al. (2023) <doi:10.1177/09622802221139233>) are implemented to estimate study-specific (difference of) means and their standard errors in order to estimate the pooled (difference of) means. Methods for meta-analyzing median survival times (McGrath et al. (2025) <doi:10.48550/arXiv.2503.03065>) are also implemented. See McGrath et al. (2024) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1686> for a detailed guide on using the package.

Helps calculate statistical values commonly used in meta-analysis. It provides several methods to compute different forms of standardized mean differences, as well as other values such as standard errors and standard deviations. The methods used in this package are described in the following references: Altman D G, Bland J M. (2011) <doi:10.1136/bmj.d2090> Borenstein, M., Hedges, L.V., Higgins, J.P.T. and Rothstein, H.R. (2009) <doi:10.1002/9780470743386.ch4> Chinn S. (2000) <doi:10.1002/1097-0258(20001130)19:22%3C3127::aid-sim784%3E3.0.co;2-m> Cochrane Handbook (2011) <https://handbook-5-1.cochrane.org/front_page.htm> Cooper, H., Hedges, L. V., & Valentine, J. C. (2009) <https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2009-05060-000> Cohen, J. (1977) <https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1987-98267-000> Ellis, P.D. (2009) <https://www.psychometrica.de/effect_size.html> Goulet-Pelletier, J.-C., & Cousineau, D. (2018) <doi:10.20982/tqmp.14.4.p242> Hedges, L. V. (1981) <doi:10.2307/1164588> Hedges L. V., Olkin I. (1985) <doi:10.1016/C2009-0-03396-0> Murad M H, Wang Z, Zhu Y, Saadi S, Chu H, Lin L et al. (2023) <doi:10.1136/bmj-2022-073141> Mayer M (2023) <https://search.r-project.org/CRAN/refmans/confintr/html/ci_proportion.html> Stackoverflow (2014) <https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/82720/confidence-interval-around-binomial-estimate-of-0-or-1> Stackoverflow (2018) <https://stats.stackexchange.com/q/338043>.

Clustering in metagenomics is the process of grouping of microbial contigs in species specific bins. This package contains functions that extract genomic features from metagenome data, find the number of clusters for that given data and find the best clustering algorithm for binning.

Analyzes adverse events in clinical trials using the metalite data structure. The package simplifies the workflow to create production-ready tables, listings, and figures discussed in the adverse events analysis chapters of "R for Clinical Study Reports and Submission" by Zhang et al. (2022) <https://r4csr.org/>.

Analyzes subject-level data in clinical trials using the metalite data structure. The package simplifies the workflow to create production-ready tables, listings, and figures discussed in the subject-level analysis chapters of "R for Clinical Study Reports and Submission" by Zhang et al. (2022) <https://r4csr.org/>.

This package provides a framework to perform soft clustering using simplex-structured matrix factorisation (SSMF). The package contains a set of functions for determining the optimal number of prototypes, the optimal algorithmic parameters, the estimation confidence intervals and the diversity of clusters. Abdolali, Maryam & Gillis, Nicolas (2020) <doi:10.1137/20M1354982>.

This package provides a toolbox to handle and represent trophic networks in space or time across aggregation levels. This package contains a layout algorithm specifically designed for trophic networks, using dimension reduction on a diffusion graph kernel and trophic levels. Importantly, this package provides a layout method applicable for large trophic networks.

Automatically estimate 11 effect size measures from a well-formatted dataset. Various other functions can help, for example, removing dependency between several effect sizes, or identifying differences between two datasets. This package is mainly designed to assist in conducting a systematic review with a meta-analysis but can be useful to any researcher interested in estimating an effect size.

This package contains functions to estimate the proportion of effects stronger than a threshold of scientific importance (function prop_stronger), to nonparametrically characterize the distribution of effects in a meta-analysis (calib_ests, pct_pval), to make effect size conversions (r_to_d, r_to_z, z_to_r, d_to_logRR), to compute and format inference in a meta-analysis (format_CI, format_stat, tau_CI), to scrape results from existing meta-analyses for re-analysis (scrape_meta, parse_CI_string, ci_to_var).

This package provides tools to generate random landscape graphs, evaluate species occurrence in dynamic landscapes, simulate future landscape occupation and evaluate range expansion when new empty patches are available (e.g. as a result of climate change). References: Mestre, F., Canovas, F., Pita, R., Mira, A., Beja, P. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.03.007>; Mestre, F., Risk, B., Mira, A., Beja, P., Pita, R. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2017.06.013>; Mestre, F., Pita, R., Mira, A., Beja, P. (2020) <doi:10.1186/s12898-019-0273-5>.

This package provides a framework for deconvolution, alignment and postprocessing of 1-dimensional (1d) nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra, resulting in a data matrix of aligned signal integrals. The deconvolution part uses the algorithm described in Koh et al. (2009) <doi:10.1016/j.jmr.2009.09.003>. The alignment part is based on functions from the speaq package, described in Beirnaert et al. (2018) <doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006018> and Vu et al. (2011) <doi:10.1186/1471-2105-12-405>. A detailed description and evaluation of an early version of the package, MetaboDecon1D v0.2.2', can be found in Haeckl et al. (2021) <doi:10.3390/metabo11070452>.

This package provides a collection of Breast Cancer Transcriptomic Datasets that are part of the MetaGxData package compendium.

To assess a summary survival curve from survival probabilities and number of at-risk patients collected at various points in time in various studies, and to test the between-strata heterogeneity.

An interactive application to visualise meta-analysis data as a physical weighing machine. The interface is based on the Shiny web application framework, though can be run locally and with the user's own data.

High-throughput, flexible and reproducible extraction of data from figures in primary research papers. metaDigitise() can extract data and / or automatically calculate summary statistics for users from box plots, bar plots (e.g., mean and errors), scatter plots and histograms.

MetaboSignal is an R package that allows merging, analyzing and customizing metabolic and signaling KEGG pathways. It is a network-based approach designed to explore the topological relationship between genes (signaling- or enzymatic-genes) and metabolites, representing a powerful tool to investigate the genetic landscape and regulatory networks of metabolic phenotypes.

This package implements a method to rapidly assess cell type identity using both functional and random gene sets and it allows users to quantify cell type replicability across datasets using neighbor voting. MetaNeighbor works on the basis that cells of the same type should have more similar gene expression profiles than cells of different types.

This package provides a comprehensive range of facilities to perform umbrella reviews with stratification of the evidence in R. The package accomplishes this aim by building on three core functions that: (i) automatically perform all required calculations in an umbrella review (including but not limited to meta-analyses), (ii) stratify evidence according to various classification criteria, and (iii) generate a visual representation of the results. Note that if you are not familiar with R, the core features of this package are available from a web browser (<https://www.metaumbrella.org/>).

Metadynamics is a state of the art biomolecular simulation technique. Plumed Tribello, G.A. et al. (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2013.09.018> program makes it possible to perform metadynamics using various simulation codes. The results of metadynamics done in Plumed can be analyzed by metadynminer'. The package metadynminer reads 1D and 2D metadynamics hills files from Plumed package. It uses a fast algorithm by Hosek, P. and Spiwok, V. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2015.08.037> to calculate a free energy surface from hills. Minima can be located and plotted on the free energy surface. Transition states can be analyzed by Nudged Elastic Band method by Henkelman, G. and Jonsson, H. (2000) <doi:10.1063/1.1323224>. Free energy surfaces, minima and transition paths can be plotted to produce publication quality images.

If results from a meta-GWAS are used for validation in one of the cohorts that was included in the meta-analysis, this will yield biased (i.e. too optimistic) results. The validation cohort needs to be independent from the meta-Genome-Wide-Association-Study (meta-GWAS) results. MetaSubtract will subtract the results of the respective cohort from the meta-GWAS results analytically without having to redo the meta-GWAS analysis using the leave-one-out methodology. It can handle different meta-analyses methods and takes into account if single or double genomic control correction was applied to the original meta-analysis. It can also handle different meta-analysis methods. It can be used for whole GWAS, but also for a limited set of genetic markers. See for application: Nolte I.M. et al. (2017); <doi: 10.1038/ejhg.2017.50>.