metasens, version 1.5-3 (2025-05-02)

Major changes

• R functions lfkindex() and doiplot() can be used in meta-analysis with missing treatment effect or standard error

User-visible changes

• print.copas():
  • new arguments ‘text.adj’ and ‘text.unadj’ to label results for the adjusted and unadjusted treatment estimate
• limitmeta():
  • print informative error message if input is a generalised linear mixed model
• metamiss():
  • replace infinite values in argument ‘IMOR.e’ and ‘IMOR.c’ with value 1e8
• Do not print the start-up message concerning older version of R package metasens for readers of ‘Meta-Analysis with R (Use R!)’

Internal changes

• copas(), lfkindex(), limitmeta(), orbbound:
  • check for three-level meta-analysis

metasens, version 1.5-2 (2023-02-28)

Major changes

• For Copas selection model, show value of between-study variance and standard deviation in printouts

Bug fixes

• Arguments ‘lfkindex’ and ‘xlim’ were ignored in doiplot()

User-visible changes

• doiplot():
  • print more informative label on horizontal axis for meta-analysis objects

Internal changes

• lfkindex():
  • new list element ‘x’ with meta-analysis object used as input
• New branch ‘release’ on GitHub starting with metasens, version 1.5-2

metasens, version 1.5-1 (2022-12-21)

User-visible changes

• Change maintainer’s email address

Internal changes

• Remove ‘meta:::’ call

metasens, version 1.5-0 (2022-07-11)

Major changes

• Use term ‘common effect model’ instead of ‘fixed effect model’ in the documentation and argument ‘common’ instead of ‘fixed’ to (not) show results for common effect model

metasens, version 1.0-1 (2022-01-28)

Bug fixes

• Calculation of adjusted standard error in limitmeta() for adjustment method beta0 (default):
  • use random effects instead of fixed effect weights
  • consider covariance between alpha and beta

User-visible changes

• plot.copas():
  • new argument ‘main’ replacing deprecated argument ‘caption’

metasens, version 1.0-0 (2021-10-22)

Major changes

• Behaviour of print and print.summary functions switched (to be in line with other print and print.summary functions in R)

• Renamed arguments:

  • ‘fixed’ (instead of ‘comb.fixed’)
  • ‘random’ (instead of ‘comb.random’)
  • ‘level.ma’ (instead of ‘level.comb’)

• In metamiss(), an infinite IMOR value is set to 1e10 instead of 9999

User-visible changes

• metamiss():
  • arguments ‘IMOR.e’ and ‘IMOR.c’ can be specified for each individual study

metasens, version 0.6-0 (2021-01-15)

Major changes

• New functions doiplot() and lfkindex() implementing the Doi plot for asymmetry and the LFK index to test for asymmetry (Furuya-Kanamori et al., 2018)

• Confidence interval of limit meta-analysis estimate can be shown in funnel plot

User-visible changes

• funnel.limitmeta():
  • new argument ‘show.ci.adjust’ to show confidence interval of adjusted estimate as a diamond

metasens, version 0.5-0 (2020-09-29)

Major changes

• Calculation of adjusted treatment estimate for Copas model in R function copas() instead of summary.copas()

User-visible changes

• copas():
  • new argument ‘level.comb’ to calculate confidence interval for pooled estimates
  • new arguments ‘title’, ‘complab’ and ‘outclab’ to print information on systematic review / meta-analysis
• summary.copas() and plot.copas():
  • arguments ‘sign.rsb’ and ‘level’ removed
• print.copas():
  • argument ‘sign.rsb’ removed
• print.limitmeta(), print.orbbound(), print.summary.limitmeta():
  • argument ‘digits.zval’ renamed to ‘digits.stat’

Internal changes

• copas():
  • new list elements (with information for adjusted overall effect): ‘TE.adjust’, ‘seTE.adjust’, ‘lower.adjust’, ‘upper.adjust’, ‘statistic.adjust’ and ‘pval.adjust’

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)

• 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)

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()