README.md

In PRISMAstatement: Plot Flow Charts According to the "PRISMA" Statement

PRISMAstatement

PRISMAstatement is a simple package which does one thing: generate publication quality flow charts of study inclusions and exclusions following recommendations of the PRISMA statement. See the vignettes (vignette("PRISMA"), vignette("exclusionflowcharts")) for more details.

Installation

You can install the released version of PRISMAstatement from CRAN with:

install.packages("PRISMAstatement")

Example

library(PRISMAstatement)
prisma(found = 750,
       found_other = 123,
       no_dupes = 776, 
       screened = 776, 
       screen_exclusions = 13, 
       full_text = 763,
       full_text_exclusions = 17, 
       qualitative = 746, 
       quantitative = 319)

{"x":{"diagram":"digraph prisma {\n node [shape=\"box\", fontsize = 10];\n graph [splines=ortho, nodesep=1, dpi = 72]\n a -> nodups;\n b -> nodups;\n a [label=\"Records identified through\ndatabase searching\n(n = 750)\"];\n b [label=\"Additional records identified\nthrough other sources\n(n = 123)\"]\n nodups -> incex;\n nodups [label=\"Records after duplicates removed\n(n = 776)\"];\n incex -> {ex; ft}\n incex [label=\"Records screened\n(n = 776)\"];\n ex [label=\"Records excluded\n(n = 13)\"];\n {rank=same; incex ex}\n ft -> {qual; ftex};\n ft [label=\"Full-text articles assessed\nfor eligibility\n(n = 763)\"];\n {rank=same; ft ftex}\n ftex [label=\"Full-text articles excluded,\nwith reasons\n(n = 17)\"];\n qual -> quant\n qual [label=\"Studies included in qualitative synthesis\n(n = 746)\"];\n quant [label=\"Studies included in\nquantitative synthesis\n(meta-analysis)\n(n = 319)\"];\n }","config":{"engine":"dot","options":null}},"evals":[],"jsHooks":[]}

PRISMAstatement documentation built on May 9, 2019, 1:03 a.m.