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RadialMR

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RadialMR's 2026 release corrects degrees of freedom that had been wrong since documentation.

mendelian-randomizationradial-plotscorrectness-auditstatistical-inferencer-package
◆Current state
RadialMR implements radial-plot formulations of IVW and MR-Egger Mendelian randomization, with outlier detection and interactive plotting. The recent history is thin on features and increasingly focused on the arithmetic: 1.2.4 in July 2026 fixes the degrees of freedom returned by egger_radial() to the documented n-2, corrects the heterogeneity p-value that inherited the same error, and repairs a negated lower bound in the random-effects bootstrap standard error search interval in ivw_radial().
◆Where it's heading
This is a package being read closely by its maintainer rather than extended. The 1.2.x line pairs statistical corrections with defensive hardening — an rmr_format class check so unformatted input fails with a clear message, and plotly_radial() dispatching on object class instead of counting list elements. Both are the kind of change made while auditing, not while building.
◆Prediction
Expect the audit to continue into the remaining estimator internals and print methods rather than new radial variants; the entries show no feature work queued.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    egger_radial() degrees of freedom corrected to n-2

    Three arithmetic fixes that change reported numbers: degrees of freedom in egger_radial() now match the documented n-2, the heterogeneity p-value for modified second-order weights follows suit, and a negated lower bound in the ivw_radial() bootstrap standard error search interval is repaired. Input validation and plot dispatch are hardened alongside.

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  2. 3mo ago

    roxygen2 bumped; package-level helpfile added

    Documentation tooling refreshed and a package-level help page added. Housekeeping ahead of the substantive 1.2.4 fixes.

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  3. 4mo ago

    Unspecified codebase optimizations

    The note claims optimizations without naming what was optimized or by how much, so the user-facing effect is unverifiable from the release record. Filed as incremental on the maintainer's word.

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  4. 1y ago

    ggplot2 v4 warning removed from plot_radial()

    A forward-compatibility fix clearing a warning raised by the then-forthcoming ggplot2 4. Upstream tracking, no behavior change.

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