eivimeycook / metascreen

The metRscreen shiny app

metRscreen

The metRscreen shiny app allows you to screen papers via their abstracts and titles along with highlighting keywords in multiple colours. It currently works best using references exported as a .csv from Zotero. However it should work with most references given in a .csv format - be sure that your data matches the arguments in the app:

Title of MS = "Title"
Authors of MS = "Author"
Year of MS = "Publication.Year'
Publishing Journal = "Publication.Title"
Abstract of MS = "Abstract"
Keywords of MS = "Manual.Tags"

Installation

Currently the metRscreen package is not on CRAN, but you can install the development version from GitHub using the devtools package:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("EIvimeyCook/metRscreen")
library(metRscreen)

Running metRscreen

The only function metRscreen is metRscreen(). The most important argument is "screen.file".

library(metRscreen)
metRscreen(screen.file = "~/Desktop/Example.csv")

metRscreen arguments

You can give specific rejection reasons as a vector with "reject.list = c()".

metRscreen(screen.file = "~/Desktop/Example.csv", reject.list = c("no control", "wrong study system"))

The .rds file that's produced allows for reloading of previous screening decisions. This will be automatically reloaded the next instance metRscreen is run and will return screening to the same state (i.e. with the same reject list, hidden or showing paper components, and any previous screening decisions).

Coming Soon

Adding a new argument which allows for non-simulataneous collaborative screening ("collab.names = c()")

metascreen's Issues

enter csv as an arguement as well as being able to choose in a pop up

the default path in the popup is very far away formt he file to enter, so it is a pain to navigate to it - quicker just to be able to enter a filepath if your comfortable with that

Add collaborative mode

Have it so that it creates separate files for each collaborator and then allows for switching between users. Could also show or hide how other people have screened.

weird spacing

For some reason the highlighted words are now on a separate line?

Also whatever is selected to display is inline with the abstract rather than the what it is (e.g. title, authors etc)

buttons

the next and previous buttons have dissappeared

re - opening past csv

it starts loads onto on the first paper

it doesn't appear to load my previous decision or my previous settings

output csv

all the column titles have 'newData.' at the beginning - this isn't needed, just have the original column names

it seems to have 'No reason given' for the papers that havent yet been screened