effort_redistribute: Redistributes title/abstract screening efforts among a review...

In metagear: Comprehensive Research Synthesis Tools for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analysis

Description

Randomly re-distributes screening tasks from one reviewers to the rest of the reviewing team. Used when screening effort needs to be re-allocated among reviewing team members.

Usage

effort_redistribute(
  aDataFrame,
  column_name = "REVIEWERS",
  reviewer = NULL,
  remove_effort = 100,
  reviewers = NULL,
  effort = NULL,
  save_split = FALSE,
  directory = getwd()
)

Arguments

aDataFrame	A data.frame containing the titles and abstracts to be screened by a team. The default assumes that the data.frame has already been formatted using effort_initialize and populated with effort_distribute.
column_name	Changes the default label of the "REVIEWERS" column that contains the screening efforts of each team member.
reviewer	The name of the reviewer whose effort is to be redistributed.
remove_effort	The percentage of effort to be redistributed among the team. The default is that 100% of the effort will be re-distributed.
reviewers	A vector of the names of each team member that will take on additional work.
effort	A vector of percentages used to allocate screening tasks among each team member. When not called explicitly, assumes effort to be distributed evenly among all members. Must be the same length as the number of team members, and also sum to 100.
save_split	Saves the allocated team effort into separate "effort_*.csv" files for individual screening tasks. These files can be given to each member to screen their random title/abstract subset. All files can be merged once all screening tasks have been completed using effort_merge.
directory	Changes the default location/directory for where the "effort_*.csv" will be saved. If not explicitly called, it will deposit files in the current working directory.

Value

A single data.frame with effort re-allocated among team members.

metagear documentation built on Feb. 15, 2021, 5:09 p.m.