[R-meta] how to make a nicer forest plot

Valeria Ivaniushina v@|v@n|u@h|n@ @end|ng |rom gm@||@com
Thu Dec 17 14:22:59 CET 2020


Awesome, thanks!

On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 3:53 PM Viechtbauer, Wolfgang (SP) <
wolfgang.viechtbauer using maastrichtuniversity.nl> wrote:

> Dear Valeria,
>
> Try adding at=c(-1, 0, 1, 5, 10) or wherever you would like axis marks.
>
> You also might want to play around with the 'efac' argument to decrease
> the length of the vertical bars at the end of the CIs. This also affects
> the height of the summary polygon. You could use efac=c(0,1), the first to
> basically suppress the vertical lines on the CIs while keeping the polygon
> height unaffected (or change the 1 as deemed fit).
>
> Best,
> Wolfgang
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: R-sig-meta-analysis [mailto:
> r-sig-meta-analysis-bounces using r-project.org]
> >On Behalf Of Valeria Ivaniushina
> >Sent: Thursday, 17 December, 2020 13:43
> >To: R meta
> >Subject: [R-meta] how to make a nicer forest plot
> >
> >Dear list members,
> >
> >This is my code for a forest plot.
> >plot(forest(res,
> >            xlab="Log odds ratio",
> >            mlab="",
> >            cex=1.8,
> >            slab=paste(wb$Name),
> >            psize=1, header="Publication",
> >            xlim = c(-2.48, 4.0),
> >            ylim = c(-1.5,20),
> >))
> >
> >The plot looks ok, but the range of the X-axis is far too large.
> >How can I correct it?
>

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