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This is a re-post of Dr. Jack Vevea email to the R packages mailing list

Greetings, R users!

I’m excited and pleased to announce that the weightr package was

released to CRAN today:

https://cran.r-project.org/ web/packages/weightr/

Our package provides a function for meta-analysts to implement the

Vevea and Hedges (1995) weight-function model for publication bias in

R and, by specifying an additional argument, to implement the modified

Vevea and Woods (2005) version as well. We were inspired by Wolfgang

Viechtbauer’s fantastic metafor package, and have formatted our output

similarly.

The package also includes a function to launch the Shiny app that

implements both of these models locally. For anyone interested who

wants to preview the Shiny app without installing the package, it’s

available online here:

https://vevealab.shinyapps.io/ WeightFunctionModel/

Thanks for your time, and I hope the package is useful to you! If you

encounter any problems or have feedback, please feel free to contact

me at [email protected].

Katie Coburn – Graduate Student, Quantitative Psychology,

University of California, Merced

Dr. Jack Vevea – Associate Professor, Quantitative Psychology, University of California, Merced.