Issue with forest.meta

[emjnixon15]

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Summary

I have made tutorials and assignments for students which use the forest.meta() function in this package. However, code that has been working for months has suddenly stopped working the last few days with this error:

Error in forest.meta(): ! could not find function "forest.meta" Execution halted

Even though I haven't changed anything.

I have tested this on multiple machines and get the same error.

Environment

I am using macOS meta 7.0.0 R version 4.3.3

[guido-s]

As a general rule, generic functions like forest.meta() should not be called directly but via forest(). Accordingly, I made forest.meta() an internal function in meta, version 7.0-0.

It is still possible to directly access forest.meta() using the ":::" operator, i.e., meta:::forest.meta(). However, I would always rely on forest().