litReview: Summarizing Graphs for Literature Reviews
Summarizes and visualizes categorical data extracted during
literature reviews and evidence syntheses, starting from a data frame with
one row per study. Generates publication-ready bar, stacked bar, histogram,
waffle, donut, treemap, alluvial, trend, co-occurrence, 'UpSet', tree, and
study-by-criteria matrix figures, together with world maps and formatted
summary tables. Plot functions return standard 'ggplot2' objects that can
be further customized, and an interactive 'Shiny' application is included
for building figures without writing code. Aims to help researchers report
study characteristics consistently across many publications.
| Version: |
1.0.0 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
cli, dplyr, ggplot2, ggtext, gt, rlang, tidyr (≥ 1.3.0) |
| Suggests: |
bslib (≥ 0.5.0), ggalluvial, ggfittext, ggupset, RColorBrewer, treemapify, maps, knitr, readxl, rmarkdown, shiny (≥ 1.7.0), testthat (≥ 3.0.0) |
| Published: |
2026-08-07 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.litReview (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Sonsoles López-Pernas [aut, cre, cph],
Kamila Misiejuk [aut],
Mohammed Saqr [aut] |
| Maintainer: |
Sonsoles López-Pernas <sonsoles.lopez at uef.fi> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/sonsoleslp/litReview/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/sonsoleslp/litReview,
https://sonsoles.me/litReview/ |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
litReview results |
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