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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
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

Documentation:

Reference manual: litReview.html , litReview.pdf
Vignettes: Getting Started with litReview (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: litReview_1.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: litReview_1.0.0.zip, r-oldrel: litReview_1.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): litReview_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): litReview_1.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): litReview_1.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): litReview_1.0.0.tgz

Linking:

Please use the canonical form https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=litReview to link to this page.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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