On Jul 29, 2013, at 11:52 AM, Rapsomaniki, Eleni wrote:
> Dear R helpers,
>
> Is there a way to display mathematical notations (e.g. greek characters,
> subscripts) properly in study (studlab) and group (byvar) labels in a forest
> plot created using the meta package?
>
> #Example:
> library(meta)
> logHR <- log(runif(10,0.5,2))
> selogHR <- log(runif(10,0.05,0.2))
> study=c(0.1,.2,.3,.4,.5,0.1,.2,.3,.4,.5)
> group=c(rep('alpha',5),rep('beta',5))
> meta1=metagen(logHR, selogHR,
> sm="HR",studlab=paste("Fixed",expression(beta[w]),study),byvar=group)
> forest(meta1, print.byvar=F)
I tried a variety of plotmath and substitute strategies but the arguments to
studlab get first processed with 'as.character' and then put into a data.frame
before printing. Dataframes do not accept language objects, so R expressions
could not be processed.
> dftest <- data.frame(a =expression(a,b,c))
Error in as.data.frame.default(x[[i]], optional = TRUE) :
cannot coerce class ""expression"" to a data.frame
Best I could to was '
... ,studlab=paste('Fixed ß[w]=',study), ....
>
> Question 2
> Is there a way to add a line to this plot at my preferred location? For
> example, I want to add a within-group combined estimate line (the default
> here is just an overall group line by random or fixed effects).
> I know I need to use grid.lines, e.g.
>
> grid.lines(x = 3, y = c(0.5,1),gp = gpar(col = 5))
>
> But for the life of me I can't work out the co-ordinate system in grid
> graphics!
Unfortunately all of the printing to the device is handled inside the 'forest'
function and no list representation is returned as a value to be augmented and
later printed. So the input data would need to be entered in a manner that gets
processed as text or you would need to modify the code. I don't have the
knowledge of the meta package that can get there.
--
David Winsemius
Alameda, CA, USA
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