[R-meta] update.meta function missing from namespace ?!

[Rachael Burke]

Hi all,

Very grateful for help � or at least verification that this is strictly a �local� problem for me and not the package.

After working fine / brilliantly for months (or years), �update.meta� is missing.

MINIMAL REPO EXAMPLE:

Library(meta)
ls("package:meta")

[1] "asin2ir"       "asin2p"        "backtransf"    "baujat"        "blup"          "bubble"        "ci"
 [8] "cilayout"      "cor2z"         "drapery"       "estimates"     "forest"        "funnel"        "gs"
[15] "JAMAlabels"    "labbe"         "logit2p"       "logVR2VE"      "longarm"       "metaadd"       "metabias"
[22] "metabin"       "metabind"      "metacont"      "metacor"       "metacr"        "metacum"       "metagen"
[29] "metainc"       "metainf"       "metamean"      "metamerge"     "metaprop"      "metarate"      "metareg"
[36] "nnt"           "or2smd"        "p2asin"        "p2logit"       "pairwise"      "radial"        "read.cdir"
[43] "read.mtv"      "read.rm5"      "rob"           "settings.meta" "setvals"       "smd2or"        "traffic_light"
[50] "transf"        "trimfill"      "VE2logVR"      "z2cor"

update.meta()
Error in update.meta() : argument "object" is missing, with no default

SESSION INFO:
> sessionInfo()
R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin20
Running under: macOS Monterey 12.1

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-x86_64/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib;  LAPACK version 3.12.0

locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8

time zone: Europe/Brussels
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] meta_8.0-1          metafor_4.6-0       numDeriv_2016.8-1.1 metadat_1.2-0       Matrix_1.7-0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] dplyr_1.1.4        compiler_4.4.1     tidyselect_1.2.1   Rcpp_1.0.13-1      xml2_1.3.6         stringr_1.5.1
 [7] splines_4.4.1      boot_1.3-30        lattice_0.22-6     readr_2.1.5        R6_2.5.1           generics_0.1.3
[13] knitr_1.48         MASS_7.3-60.2      tibble_3.2.1       nloptr_2.1.1       minqa_1.2.8        pillar_1.9.0
[19] tzdb_0.4.0         rlang_1.1.4        utf8_1.2.4         stringi_1.8.4      mathjaxr_1.6-0     xfun_0.47
[25] cli_3.6.3          magrittr_2.0.3     grid_4.4.1         rstudioapi_0.16.0  hms_1.1.3          lme4_1.1-35.5
[31] lifecycle_1.0.4    CompQuadForm_1.4.3 nlme_3.1-164       vctrs_0.6.5        glue_1.8.0         fansi_1.0.6
[37] purrr_1.0.2        tools_4.4.1        pkgconfig_2.0.3

WHAT I HAVE TRIED SO FAR:
Re-installing meta from CRAN (v.8)
Re-installing meta from github (v8-02)
Checking that �update.meta� isn�t in namespace metafor or metadata instead.

�?update.meta� still gets me the help page about the function.

WHAT I WANT:
I�m totally lost.  Sorry.

Firstly � can anyone else recreate the problem or is this strictly for my machine?

Secondly - Where has �update.meta� (and lots of other functions in �meta� gone?!
How do I get them back?


Thanks so much,

Rachael



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