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    widely used but no longer updated meta-analysis software (i.e., metawin).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
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2021-02-15 14:55:42 UTC; lajeunesse
Author: Marc J. Lajeunesse [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9678-2080>)
Maintainer: Marc J. Lajeunesse <lajeunesse@usf.edu>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2021-02-15 15:40:02 UTC
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