HI everybody.
I'm using the package 'metagen' to plot sample size in meta-analysis.
The plot function of the package reorders the studies by alphabetcial order.
However, I would like to have the studies listed by year.
How can I force the plotting function to order the study by the variable
'year' rather than by the first initial of the variable 'reference'?
Thank you in advance,
Antonello
Here my sample code:
### the data
df <- structure(list(reference = structure(c(3L, 6L, 9L, 2L, 8L, 5L,
7L, 10L, 4L, 1L), .Label = c("Bellani et al. 2012 ",
"Bocco et al. 2004 ", "Costa 1998 ",
"Dalla Volta et al. 2011 ", "Manzanere et al. 2006 ",
"McEnty et al. 2001 ", "Ossian et al. 2006 ",
"Simone et al. 2004 ", "Tanter et al. 2002 ",
"Zimmian et al. 2006 "), class = "factor"), size = c(20,
288, 70, 138, 475, 191, 918, 80, 508, 205), year = c(1998, 2001,
2002, 2004, 2004, 2006, 2006, 2006, 2011, 2012)), .Names = c("reference",
"size", "year"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -10L
))
### a quick look at the data
head(df)
str(df)
### the library
library(metagen); library(ggplot2)
### the plot
p1 <- plotStudySizes(df)
p1 <- p1 + ggtitle("Studies with Cross-sectional estimates")
p1
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