The goal of sysrevdata is to provide examples and extensible toolchains for structuring data for systematic review.

See vignettes (click on the “Articles” tab above) for example toolchain walkthroughs.

Vignettes

  • Narrative synthesis table | Condensed summaries of data for human interpretation
  • Machine readable data for complex visualisations and analyses | Structuring data for machine interpretation

Example dataset

This package currently contains bufferstrips dataset from a published systematic review.

library(sysrevdata)

# take a peek at the first 10 rows, 
# restricted to first 5 columns, 
# of each dataset

bufferstrips %>%
  # select first five columns
  dplyr::select(1:5) %>% 
  # select first 10 rows
  head(10)
#> # A tibble: 10 x 5
#>     item_id short_title    title                                    year period 
#>       <dbl> <chr>          <chr>                                   <dbl> <chr>  
#>  1 20641367 Aaron (2005)   Invertebrate Biodiversity in Agricultu~  2005 2005-2~
#>  2 20641374 Aavik (2008)   What is the role of local landscape st~  2008 2005-2~
#>  3 20641375 Aavik (2010)   Quantifying the effect of organic farm~  2010 2010-2~
#>  4 20641382 Abu-Zreig (20~ Experimental investigation of runoff r~  2004 2000-2~
#>  5 20641384 Abu-Zreig (20~ Phosphorus removal in vegetated filter~  2003 2000-2~
#>  6 20641386 Adams (2013)   Disturbance and landscape effects on a~  2013 2010-2~
#>  7 20641389 Ahern (2002)   Effect of different wheat production s~  2002 2000-2~
#>  8 20641390 Al (2013)      Does the presence of grassy strips and~  2013 2010-2~
#>  9 20641397 Alignier (201~ Changes in management practices over t~  2015 2015-2~
#> 10 20641398 Anan'eva (200~ Comparative assessment of soil microbi~  2008 2005-2~

See

for more details.

Installation

You can install

the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("softloud/sysrevdata")

Contributing to this

This is work that extended from ideas generated at the Evidence Synthesis Hackathon; it is the voluntary work of open scientists who welcome contributions. If you have an idea for an improvement or extension, please consider contributing a pull request or opening an issue.