metainsight: A 'shiny' Application for Network Meta-Analysis

Conduct network meta-analyses through a graphical user interface using 'bnma', 'gemtc' and 'netmeta' with additional analysis provided by 'meta' and 'metafor'. Frequentist, Bayesian, meta-regression and baseline risk meta-regression analyses can all be conducted using a consistent data structure and terminology. Many options are provided for downloading publication-ready outputs and analyses can be reproduced outside of the application by downloading a 'quarto' file. The interface was generated using 'shinyscholar'. The initial version of the app was described by Owen et al. (2018) <doi:10.1002/jrsm.1373>, Bayesian ranking visualisations were described by Nevill et al. (2023) <doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2023.02.016> and metaregression was described by Morris et al. (2025) <doi:10.1016/j.jclinepi.2025.111839>.

Version: 7.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: bayesplot, bnma (≥ 1.4.0), bslib, coda, cookies, DT (≥ 0.5), dplyr, gargoyle, gemtc (≥ 1.1.1), ggiraphExtra, ggplot2, ggrepel, glue, gt, igraph, jsonlite, knitcitations, knitr, MCMCvis, magick, meta (≥ 8.1.0), metafor, mirai (≥ 2.0.0), netmeta (≥ 3.1.0), patchwork, plotly, quarto, R6, rio, rintrojs, rmarkdown, rsvg, shiny (≥ 1.8.1), shinyalert, shinybusy, shinyjs, stringr, shinyWidgets (≥ 0.6.0), svglite, tidyr, xml2
Suggests: jsonvalidate, mockery, pdftools, shinytest2, testthat
Published: 2026-06-15
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.metainsight (may not be active yet)
Author: Alex Sutton [aut, cre], Naomi Bradbury [aut], Ryan Field [aut], Tom Morris [aut], Clareece Nevill [aut], Janion Nevill [aut], Rhiannon Owen [aut], Simon E. H. Smart [aut], Yiqiao Xin [aut], Nicola Cooper [ctb], Suzanne Freeman [ctb]
Maintainer: Alex Sutton <ajs22 at leicester.ac.uk>
License: GPL-3
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README
CRAN checks: metainsight results

Documentation:

Reference manual: metainsight.html , metainsight.pdf
Vignettes: An introduction to MetaInsight (source, R code)

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Package source: metainsight_7.1.0.tar.gz
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