The goal of the FReD package is to provide various interfaces to the FORRT Replication Database. The package includes a shiny app - the FReD Explorer - as well as functions to directly access and analyse the dataset.
The FReD Explorer allows users to explore the dataset, and to assess replicability
and effect sizes of the included studies based on various filters. It primarily
serves as a gateway to meta-science. You can access the FReD Explorer online or
by calling run_explorer() in your R console after you have loaded the package.
The FReD Annotator allows users to annotate lists of articles (e.g. reading lists for classes, or reference lists for draft articles) with any replication findings. This is intended to make it easier to use replications in teaching and research, and to thus ensure that claims are based on the best available evidence. You can access the FReD Annotator online.
You can install the development version of FReD like so:
devtools::install_github("forrtproject/FReD")library(FReD)
run_explorer()To load the dataset and prepare it for analyses, you can use the following code:
library(FReD)
load_fred_data()