[R] 1 - Survival Plot

[Kevin E. Thorpe]

Euphoria wrote:
> Hi all!
> 
> I have created survival vs. time plots. Now I would like to plot (1 -
> Survival) vs. time.
> Is there a way for me to retrieve the survival estimate information, to
> which I can manually make an adjustment (ie; failure = 1 - survival) before
> I re-plot this information?
> 
> Here is the code I use to attain the survival vs. time plot:
> 
> plot (survfit (Surv(DTDMRS3, DMRS3) ~ RS2540477, data = wise),
> 	lty = 1:2:3, mark.DTDMRS3 = 0, ylab = "Probability", xlab = "Survival Time
> in Days")
> 	legend(200, 0.2, legend = c ("CC", "TC", "TT"), lty = c(3, 2, 1), title
> "LAT4H")
> 
> Thanks!

In the help file for plot.survfit you can read about the fun argument. 
fun="event" does what you want.

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Kevin E. Thorpe
Biostatistician/Trialist, Knowledge Translation Program
Assistant Professor, Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
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