metaplot-package: Metaplot: A Forest Plot Graphics Package

In pmur002/metaplot: Meta-analysis Forest Plots

Description

Draws flexible forest plots. Provides methods for meta-analysis objects from rmeta, meta, and metafor packages.

Details

Package:	metaplot
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0
Date:	2012-06-18
License:	GPL-2

Draws forest plots with control over row and column order, position and width of confidence interval graph, graph and axis labels, rounding of numeric values, adding new columns, combining columns, adding horizontal and vertical spaces, specifying reference line, customising plotting parameters, drawing graph on logged scale, alignment of columns.

It also utilises the naming scheme in forest plots, where users can use grid.edit() to modify specific aspects of the plot after it has been drawn without needing extensive knowledge of the structure of the plot.

The process of producing the plot from a meta-analysis object requires three functions in this package. First, meta2DF converts a meta-analysis object into a data frame, then metaDF2Matrix converts the data frame into a matrix. Lastly, drawMeta draws the forest plot using the matrix.

Author(s)

Paul Murrell, David Scott, and Edna Lu

Maintainer: David Scott <[e-mail]>

References

Paul Murrell (2005). R Graphics. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Ried, K. (2006). Interpreting and understanding meta-analysis graphs - A practical guide. Australian Family Physician, 35(8).

Note: The code for drawMeta() generic function is based on Thomas Lumley's forestplot() function from the rmeta package.

Examples

example(drawMeta)

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