[R] forest plot

[Adaikalavan Ramasamy]

You can also do meta.summaries() - from rmeta package - followed by a 
plot() on the resulting object.

Or for a much more flexible plot try forestplot() function, also from 
rmeta package, but this requires a bit of work to set it up.

Regards, Adai


On 24/08/2010 05:50, C.H. wrote:
> The correct command for forest plot should be "plot" (instead of
> "forest") if you are using metagen from meta package.
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> For help:
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> ?plot.meta
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> On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 11:03 AM, zhangweiwei<weiweizhang56 at hotmail.com>  wrote:
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>> Dear Sir or Madam,
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>> I am trying to plot forest plot. I extracted odds ratio and their corresponding 95% confidence interval from papers, then I calculated the log(OR) and standard error using the following command
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>>   OR<-metagen(logOR,selogOR,sm="OR")
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>> forest(OR,comb.fixed=TRUE,comb.random=TRUE,digits=2)
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>> However, it does not produce a forest plot.  Can someone kindly help? Thank you in advance.
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>> Best wishes
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>> weiwei
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