metasens, version 0.4-1 (2020-07-02)

User-visible changes

• Use Markdown for NEWS

Internal changes

• Call funnel.meta() instead of funnel.default() which will be removed from R package meta, version 4.13-0

metasens, version 0.4-0 (2019-08-06)

Major changes

• New function metamiss() implementing imputation methods for missing binary data (Gamble & Hollis, 2005; Higgins et al., 2008)

• Use roxygen2 for development of R package metasens

• Dataset ‘nsaids’ renamed to ‘Moore1998’

metasens, version 0.3-2 (2017-12-06)

Major changes

• Version of R package meta must be larger or equal 4.9-0

• For limit meta-analysis, R_b measure of between-study heterogeneity added (Crippa et al., 2016, https://doi.org/10.1002/sim.6980)

• P-values can be printed in scientific notation

• P-values equal to 0 are actually printed as “0” instead of “< 0.0001”

• Thousands separator can be used in printouts and forest plots for large numbers

User-visible changes

• print.summary.limitmeta():
  • new argument print.Rb to specify if heterogeneity measure should be shown in output

Internal changes

• Code customisations due to changes in R package meta, version 4.9-0

metasens, version 0.3-1 (2016-10-15)

User-visible changes

• plot.copas():
  • default label on x-axis in two bottom plots should read ‘… largest se’ instead of ‘… largest sd’

metasens, version 0.3-0 (2016-02-16)

Major changes

• Version of R package meta must be larger or equal 4.0-0

• Checks implemented which are available in R package meta

User-visible changes

• copas():
  • new argument ‘sign.rsb’ (which has been available in function summary.copas since version 0.6-3 of R package copas)
• plot.copas(), print.copas(), and summary.copas():
  • consider default value for argument ‘sign.rsb’ from copas object
• limitmeta():
  • argument ‘sm’ removed (not necessary)
  • set z- and p-value of adjusted effect equal to NA for metaprop objects
• Help pages updated

Bug fixes

• print.copas():
  • other values than 0.1 considered for argument ‘sign.rsb’
• print.summary.limitmeta():
  • no error for metaprop objects

Internal changes

• copas() and print.copas():
  • use internal function chklevel() from R package meta to check significance level

metasens, version 0.2-0 (2014-12-06)

Major changes

• Argument ‘backtransf’ added to R package meta, version 3.8-0, considered in R package metasens.

User-visible changes

• copas(), limitmeta(), and funnel.limitmeta():
  • new argument ‘backtransf’
• orbbound():
  • new argument ‘backtransf’
  • new argument ‘left’ to chose whether selection bias is expected on the left or right side of the funnel plot
• forest.orbbound(), print.copas(), print.limitmeta(), print.orbbound(), print.summary.copas(), print.summary.limitmeta():
  • new argument ‘backtransf’ which replaces argument ‘logscale’
• Several help pages updated

metasens, version 0.1-0 (2014-06-24)

First version released on CRAN - replacement of R package copas

Major changes

• Limit meta-analysis implemented (Rücker et al., 2011, https://doi.org/10.1093/biostatistics/kxq046)

User-visible changes

• New functions:

  • limitmeta(), print.limitmeta()
  • summary.limitmeta(), print.summary.limitmeta()
  • funnel.limitmeta()

• print.copas() and print.summary.copas():

  • new argument ‘logscale’ to print results for relative effect measures on log scale

• New dataset ‘nsaids’

• New help pages added and update of existing help pages

Internal changes

• New internal function radialregression()