makeLabelDesc: Make a label description for heterogeneity measures.

In pmur002/metaplot: Meta-analysis Forest Plots

Description

This function produces descriptions that are used for making a label, which is a heterogeneity measure in a specified format in character. It is used inside the arguments stats and newLabel in the function metaDF2Matrix.

Usage

makeLabelDesc(format, heteroNames)

Arguments

format	Format string for new label.
heteroNames	Names of existing heterogeneity measures.

Details

The names of heterogeneity measures are taken from the vector, "hetero", of the "metaDF" object.

Value

An object of class 'labeldesc' with a list of following components:

format	A format string
labelnames	A character vector of names of labeled measures

See Also

makeStatsDesc

Examples

library(meta)
data(Olkin95)
meta1 <- metabin(event.e, n.e, event.c, n.c, data = Olkin95,
                 subset = c(41,47,51,59), sm = "RR", method = "I")
Data <- meta2DF(meta1)
het1 <- makeLabelDesc(c("I2.conf"), label = "Heterogeneity:")
het2 <- makeLabelDesc(c("Q"), label = "                     ")
matrix <- metaDF2Matrix(Data, stat = list(het1,het2))
drawMeta(matrix,
         plotPar = metaPar(stat = list(col="darkred",
                                       fontface="bold.italic")))

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