# Comprehensive Research Synthesis Tools for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis

## Documentation for package ‘metagear’ version 0.6

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

## Help Pages

metagear-package | Research synthesis tools to facilitate systematic reviews, data extraction, and meta-analysis.
abstract_screener | A GUI screener to quickly code candidate studies for inclusion/exclusion into a systematic review or meta-analysis.
browse_DOI | Opens a web page associated with a DOI (digital object identifier).
chachi | A small tribute to Chachi.
covariance_commonControl | Generates a sampling variance-covariance matrix for modeling dependencies among effect sizes due to sharing a common control.
effort_distribute | Assigns title/abstract screening efforts to a team.
effort_initialize | Formats a reference dataset for title/abstract screening efforts.
effort_merge | Merges multiple files that had title/abstract screening efforts distributed across a team.
effort_redistribute | Redistributes title/abstract screening efforts among a review team.
effort_summary | Provides a text summary of screening efforts among the reviewing team.
example_references_metagear | A collection of bibliographic references
figure_add | Manually add/detect points to a scatter plot figure.
figure_barPlot | Detect and display all bar plot objects.
figure_detectAllPoints | Automated detection of plotted points from a scatter-plot figure image.
figure_detectAxis | Detect an axis from a figure image.
figure_display | Displays an image plot.
figure_displayDetectedPoints | Displays detected points on figure.
figure_displayDetections | Displays the detected figure objects.
figure_extractDetectedPoints | Extracts data points from a detected image.
figure_read | Reads/loads a figure image from file.
figure_removeOutlyingPoints | Remove outlier points from a figure.
figure_scatterPlot | Detect and display all scatter plot objects.
figure_splitPlot | Splits a composite figure that contains multiple plots.
figure_transformByColors | Transforms RBG figure into list of binary images.
figure_transformToBinary | Transforms figure to binary image.
figure_write | Saves/writes a figure image.
impute_missingness | Provides a summary of missingness in a dataset.
impute_SD | Imputes missing standard deviations in a dataset.
isPDF | Evaluates whether a file is a PDF document.
Kam_et_al_2003_Fig2 | An example image of a scatterplot figure
Kortum_and_Acymyan_2013_Fig4 | An example image of a bar plot figure
MA_effectsTable | Generate an ANOVA-like effects table for a meta-analysis.
PDFs_collect | Attempts to download PDFs from multiple DOI links.
PDF_download | Attempts to download a PDF using a DOI link.
PDF_extractImages | Attempts to extract all images from a PDF
plot_PRISMA | Plots and creates a PRISMA flow diagram.
random_d | Random generation of Hedges' d effect sizes.
random_missingness | Random generation of missingness in a data frame.
random_N | Random generation of sample sizes (N) for study outcomes.
random_OR | Random generation of odds ratio (OR) effect sizes.
random_pairedN | Random generation of paired sample sizes (N) for study outcomes.
random_r | Random generation of correlation coefficients.
random_RR | Random generation of log response ratio (RR) effect sizes.
replicate_MetaWin2.0 | Replicate meta-analysis results and summaries from MetaWin 2.0.
replicate_phyloMeta1.3 | Replicate phylogeneic meta-analysis results and summaries from phyloMeta 1.3.
scrape_bibliography | Attempts to scrape/extract bibliographic data from Web of Science.