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LLL
LLL

Reputation: 743

Is there an argument for the width of the plotting area in forestplot()

Is there an argument for adjusting the width to height ratio of the plotting area in forestplot()? I'd like to set the x-axis to be 2/3 of the height of the y-axis.

Thanks! 

# Package
library(forestplot)

# Data 
test_data <- data.frame(coef=c(1.59, 1.24),
                        low=c(1.4, 0.78),
                        high=c(1.8, 1.55),
                        varname=c("aa","bb"),
                        varexplan=c("A very long description A very long description","A very long description A very long description"))

test_data$varexplan <- as.character(test_data$varexplan)
test_data$varname <- as.character(test_data$varname)

# Prepare text 
tabletext <- cbind(c(test_data$varname), 
                   c(test_data$explan))
# Plot
forestplot(tabletext,
           test_data$coef,
           test_data$low,
           test_data$high)

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2810

Answers (2)

torwart
torwart

Reputation: 580

In case it helps somebody: package forestplot does provide an option to set the graph width, aptly named graphwidth, which requires an unit argument: for instance, 

forestplot(tabletext,
       test_data$coef,
       test_data$low,
       test_data$high,
       graphwidth = unit(5, "cm"))

which is probably a slightly more elegant option if you want to make the plot area proportions independent of the exporting function.

Upvotes: 1

jay.sf
jay.sf

Reputation: 72984

You could set the desired proportions when exporting the plot, e.g. with png(). The plot will be saved into your working directory.

h <- 1080

png(height = h, width=2/3*h, res=300)
forestplot(tabletext,
           test_data$coef,
           test_data$low,
           test_data$high)
dev.off()

Yielding

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Upvotes: 0

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