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The Forestplot package

A forest plot that allows for multiple confidence intervals per row, custom fonts for each text element, custom confidence intervals, text mixed with expressions, and more. The aim is to extend the use of forest plots beyond meta-analyses. This is a more general version of the original 'rmeta' package's forestplot function and relies heavily on the 'grid' package.

Questions

Due to the package's popularity I suggest that you start with asking questions on StackOverflow so that others can learn from your own problems. Add the tag r and forestplot so that others can quickly find the question.

Contributing

All contributions are welcome. The package is managed at GitHub and I suggest that you start with creating an issue. If you feel that you're able to solve the coding on your own then fork the package and once you're done, create a pull request.

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Install

install.packages('forestplot')

Monthly Downloads

12,135

Version

3.1.3

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

Last Published

August 26th, 2023

Functions in forestplot (3.1.3)

fpDrawNormalCI

Draw standard confidence intervals
HRQoL

Regression coefficients and confidence intervals from HRQoL study
fpShapesGp

A function for graphical parameters of the shapes used in forestplot()
assertAndRetrieveTidyValue

Retriever of tidyselect
forestplot

Draws a forest plot
fpColors

A function for the color elements used in forestplot()
drawHorizontalLines

Draws the horizontal lines
fpTxtGp

Get font settings for forestplot
getTicks

Ticks for plot axis
fp_add_lines

Adds a line to the graph
prFpFetchRowLabel

Get the label
fp_set_zebra_style

Decorate the plot with a zebra pattern
fp_decorate_graph

Decorate the graph
heightDetails.xaxis

Gets the height for an x-axis object
prFpDrawLine

Draws a straight line
prDefaultGp

Construct default parameters from arguments that may include missing arguments
prGetLabelsList

Gets the forestplot labels
prFpFindWidestGrob

Finds the widest grob in the current list of grobs
prFpConvertMultidimArray

Converts a 2D or 3D array to mean, lower, upper
prFpGetLayoutVP

Get the main forestplot
prGetShapeGp

A function to extract graphical parameters from a fpShapesGp object
prMergeGp

A function to merge two sets of graphical parameters
prFpGetConfintFnList

Get a function list
prFpGetLegendBoxPosition

Converts legend position to a standard position
prepLines

Prepares the lines for the plot
prepLabelText

Prepares label text
prPopulateList

Populate a list corresponding to matrix specs
prGparMerge

prGetTextGrobCex

Just a simple access to the gp$cex parameter
prFpValidateLabelList

Validate the forestplot label list
prFpXrange

Gets the x-axis range
prPushMarginViewport

Pushes viewport with margins
prepAlign

Prepares graph position
prFpPrepareLegendMarker

Prepares the legend marker function
prepGraphPositions

Prepares graph position
prFpPrintLabels

Plots the labels
fp_txt_italic

Text styling
fp_insert_row

Insert/append rows into forestplot
safeLoadPackage

Safely loads package
prListRep

An alternative to rep()
fp_set_style

Set the style of the graph
prGridPlotTitle

Adds a title to the plot
prepGridMargins

Convert margins to viewport npc margins
dfHRQoL

Regression coefficients and confidence intervals from HRQoL study
forestplot-package

Package description
fpLegend

A function for the legend used in forestplot()