jointmetaplotall: Arrange study plots into a grid
In joineRmeta: Joint Modelling for Meta-Analytic (Multi-Study) Data

Description Usage Arguments Value See Also Examples

This function is designed to take the output from jointmetaplot and output the study plots of each type arranged into a grid.

jointmetaplotall(
  plotlist,
  ncol,
  nrow = NULL,
  top = NULL,
  type = c("Longitudinal", "Event", "Both")
)

`plotlist`	the output from running the `jointmetaplot` function.
`ncol`	the number of columns of the grid to arrange the plots in. This must be supplied to the function
`nrow`	the number of rows of the grid to arrange the plot in. This is an optional parameter, which if not supplied is calculated in the function based on the number of supplied plots and the specified value of `ncol`.
`top`	a character string to act as the title for the plots
`type`	option to select what type of plots should be returned. If just the grid of the longitudinal trajectories are required then `type = 'Longitudinal'`. Else if just the grid of the survival probabilities graphs are required then `type = 'Survival'`. Finally if grids of both survival and longitudinal plots are required then this should be set to `type = 'Both'`. If both, then the same title as supplied to `top` will be used, similarly for `ncol` and `nrow`.

An object of class 'jointplotsall' is returned. If in the function call type = 'Longitudinal' or type = 'Both' then the element in the returned object names 'longall' is the arranged grid of longitudinal trajectory plots from each study in the dataset. If type = 'Survival' or type = 'Both' then the element in the returned object labelled 'eventsall' is the arranged grid of the survival probability plots from each study in the dataset. The arranged grids can either be printed by name, or by extracting them as you would an element from a list.

jointmetaplot

    ## Not run: 
    #change data to jointdata format
    jointdat<-tojointdata(longitudinal = simdat$longitudinal,
                          survival = simdat$survival, id = 'id',
                          longoutcome = 'Y', timevarying = c('time','ltime'),
                          survtime = 'survtime', cens = 'cens',
                          time = 'time')

    #ensure variables are correctly formatted
    jointdat$baseline$study <- as.factor(jointdat$baseline$study)
    jointdat$baseline$treat <- as.factor(jointdat$baseline$treat)

    #produce plots
    #note that inclusion of a smoother sometime results in error messages
    #see ggplot2 for error message interpretation
    sepplots<-jointmetaplot(dataset = jointdat, study = 'study',
                        longoutcome = 'Y', longtime = 'time',
                        survtime = 'survtime', cens = 'cens', id = 'id',
                        smoother = TRUE, studynames = c('Study 1', 'Study 2',
                        'Study 3', 'Study 4', 'Study 5'), type = 'Both')

    allplot2<-jointmetaplotall(plotlist = sepplots, ncol =2,
             top = 'All studies', type = 'Both')
   
## End(Not run)