effectcheck: Statistical Consistency Checker for Published Research Results
A conservative, assumption-aware statistical consistency checker for
published research results. Parses test statistics, effect sizes, and confidence
intervals from text, PDF, HTML, and Word documents across multiple citation styles
including American Psychological Association (APA), Harvard, Frontiers, PLOS ONE,
Scientific Reports, Nature Human Behaviour, PeerJ, eLife, PNAS, and others.
Recomputes effect sizes using all plausible variants when design is ambiguous, and
validates internal consistency. Supports t-tests, F-tests/ANOVA, correlations,
chi-square, z-tests, regression, and nonparametric tests. Provides
'statcheck'-compatible API functions for batch processing of files and directories.
Explicitly tracks all assumptions and uncertainty in output. Detects decision errors
(significance reversals) similar to 'statcheck'. Note: this package is under active
development and results should be independently verified. Use is at the sole
responsibility of the user. Contributions and verification reports are welcome.
| Version: |
0.2.3 |
| Depends: |
R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: |
stringr, stringi, dplyr, purrr, tibble, xml2, rvest, glue, logger, graphics, stats, utils |
| Suggests: |
shiny, shinythemes, DT, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥
3.0.0), MBESS, effectsize, jsonlite, tesseract, magick, qpdf, statcheck |
| Published: |
2026-03-25 |
| DOI: |
10.32614/CRAN.package.effectcheck (may not be active yet) |
| Author: |
Gilad Feldman 
[aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: |
Gilad Feldman <giladfel at gmail.com> |
| BugReports: |
https://github.com/giladfeldman/escicheck/issues |
| License: |
MIT + file LICENSE |
| URL: |
https://github.com/giladfeldman/escicheck |
| NeedsCompilation: |
no |
| SystemRequirements: |
poppler-utils (pdftotext) for PDF text extraction |
| Materials: |
README, NEWS |
| CRAN checks: |
effectcheck results |
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