[R-meta] weights in forest plot

[Antonia Sudkaemper]

Hello Wolfgang and Michael,

great, thank you so much for your help, it worked! :)

All the best, Antonia

On Mon, 27 Aug 2018 at 13:53, Michael Dewey <lists using dewey.myzen.co.uk> wrote:

> Dear Antonia
>
> You need to do two things to fix this
>
> 1 - make space for it by starting the forest plot higher up, or by
> leaving a space. You use rows = ... to do this
>
> 2 - tell R where to put your addpoly, again by using the rows = argument.
>
> You may also need to use the ylim argument to move the frame of the plot
> so that your forest plot does not overprint it. You can find you what
> value it is currently using for ylim by inspecting the result of forest
> - try wrapping the call in str() - and then add to the second value to
> make more space at the top or subtract from the first to make space at
> the bottom.
>
> Hard to give you exact numbers, you have to experiment. But, hey, you
> are a scientist so you must believe in experimentation as the road to
> wisdom and enlightenment.
>
> Michael
>
> On 27/08/2018 12:22, Antonia Sudkaemper wrote:
> > hedgesg = c(-0.19, 0.10, 0.26, 0.60, 0.25)
> > sei <- c(.16, .07, .18, .13, .11)
> > ci.lb <http://ci.lb> <- hedgesg - 1.96*sei
> > ci.ub <- hedgesg + 1.96*sei
> > study<-c("Study 1", "Study 2", "Study 3", "Study 4", "Study 5")
> > labels<-c(-2, -1, 0, 1, 2)
> >
> > forest(hedgesg, ci.lb <http://ci.lb>=ci.lb <http://ci.lb>, ci.ub=ci.ub,
> > showweights=TRUE, refline=0, xlab = "Hedges' g", slab=study, alim =
> > c(-2,2), xlim=c(-8,5), at=labels, cex = 0.9)
> > addpoly.default(x = 0.5, ci.lb <http://ci.lb>=0.35, ci.ub=0.65)
>
> --
> Michael
> http://www.dewey.myzen.co.uk/home.html
>


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Antonia Sudkämper
PhD Candidate in Organizational Psychology/University of Exeter
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