General Package for Meta-Analysis R package meta version 8.5-0 CRAN Task View: ClinicalTrials (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=ClinicalTrials) CRAN Task View: MetaAnalysis (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis) User-friendly general package providing standard methods for meta-analysis and supporting Schwarzer, Carpenter, and Rücker <DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-21416-0>, "Meta-Analysis with R" (2015): - common effect and random effects meta-analysis; - several plots (forest, funnel, Galbraith / radial, L'Abbe, Baujat, bubble); - three-level meta-analysis model; - generalised linear mixed model; - logistic regression with penalised likelihood for rare events; - Hartung-Knapp method for random effects model; - Kenward-Roger method for random effects model; - prediction interval and density of the prediction distribution; - expected proportion of comparable studies with clinically important benefit or harm; - statistical tests for funnel plot asymmetry; - trim-and-fill method to evaluate bias in meta-analysis; - meta-regression; - cumulative meta-analysis and leave-one-out meta-analysis; - import data from 'RevMan 5'; - produce forest plot summarising several (subgroup) meta-analyses. Software Depends: R (>= 4.0.0), metabook (>= 0.2-0) Imports: metafor (>= 3.0-0), grid, ggplot2, lme4, CompQuadForm, xml2, methods, readr, dplyr, magrittr, purrr, stringr, rlang, tibble, scales, cli Suggests: netmeta, BiasedUrn, pimeta, estmeansd, robvis, brglm2, writexl, rmarkdown, knitr, ggpubr, gridExtra, gemtc, ragg, metadat, svglite Guido Schwarzer <guido.schwarzer@uniklinik-freiburg.de> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Guido Schwarzer [cre, aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6214-9087>) GPL (>= 2) 2026-05-25 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=meta doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.meta