R Bayesian Evidence Synthesis Tools R package RBesT version 1.9-0 CRAN Task View: ClinicalTrials (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=ClinicalTrials) CRAN Task View: MetaAnalysis (https://CRAN.R-project.org/view=MetaAnalysis) Tool-set to support Bayesian evidence synthesis. This includes meta-analysis, (robust) prior derivation from historical data, operating characteristics and analysis (1 and 2 sample cases). Please refer to Weber et al. (2021) <doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i19> for details on applying this package while Neuenschwander et al. (2010) <doi:10.1177/1740774509356002> and Schmidli et al. (2014) <doi:10.1111/biom.12242> explain details on the methodology. Software Depends: R (>= 3.5.0) Imports: methods, Rcpp (>= 0.12.0), RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1), rstan (>= 2.32.0), rstantools (>= 2.4.0), posterior (>= 1.5.0), assertthat, mvtnorm, Formula, checkmate, bayesplot (>= 1.4.0), ggplot2, dplyr, stats, utils, matrixStats, abind, rlang, jsonlite, lifecycle LinkingTo: BH (>= 1.72.0), Rcpp (>= 0.12.0), RcppEigen (>= 0.3.3.3.0), RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1), rstan (>= 2.32.0), StanHeaders (>= 2.32.0) Suggests: rmarkdown, knitr, testthat (>= 2.0.0), foreach, purrr, rstanarm (>= 2.17.2), scales, tools, broom, tidyr, parallel, brms, glue, ragg, withr Sebastian Weber <sebastian.weber@novartis.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Novartis Pharma AG [cph], Sebastian Weber [aut, cre], Beat Neuenschwander [ctb], Heinz Schmidli [ctb], Baldur Magnusson [ctb], Yue Li [ctb], Satrajit Roychoudhury [ctb], Lukas A. Widmer [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1471-3493>), Daniel Sabanés Bové [ctb] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0176-9239>), Trustees of Columbia University [cph] (R/stanmodels.R, configure, configure.win) GPL (>= 3) 2026-03-13 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=RBesT doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.RBesT