labels.meta: Create study labels for forest plot

In guido-s/meta: General Package for Meta-Analysis

Create study labels for forest plot

Description

Create study labels for forest plot.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'meta'
labels(
  object,
  author = object$studlab,
  year = "",
  citation = NULL,
  layout = "JAMA",
  data = object$data,
  ...
)

Arguments

object	An object of class meta.
author	An optional vector providing study authors.
year	An optional vector providing year of publication.
citation	An optional vector providing citation numbers.
layout	A character string specifying layout. Either "JAMA" or "Lancet".
data	An optional data frame containing the study information.
...	Additional arguments (ignored at the moment).

Details

This auxiliary function can be used to create study labels in JAMA or Lancet layout which can be added to a forest plot using argument 'studlab'.

Author(s)

Guido Schwarzer [e-mail]

See Also

forest.meta

Examples

data(Fleiss1993bin)

refs <- 20 + 1:7

m <- metabin(d.asp, n.asp, d.plac, n.plac, data = Fleiss1993bin,
 studlab = study, sm = "OR", random = FALSE)

forest(m,
  studlab = labels(m, year = year, citation = refs, layout = "JAMA"),
  layout = "JAMA", fontfamily = "Times", fontsize = 10)

forest(m,
  studlab = labels(m, year = year, citation = refs, layout = "Lancet"))

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