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Official Git repository of R package meta
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Aesthetics: remove overall effect estimate ref line and add line at top of pot #46

Closed mgirdwood7 closed 2 years ago

mgirdwood7 commented 2 years ago

Hi there,

Thank you for the meta package, it is very useful and the customisation of plots is fantastic.

These two points are barely 'issues' and really just very small customisations to the forest.meta plot if you could help.

  1. I was wanting to remove the dotted ref line for the estimate of effect in the plot - is there anyway to do this? I was digging through the source code but couldn't find an immediate easy option unless I missed something? The ref parameter is only for the solid reference line right?

  2. Is there anyway to add a solid line across the top of the plot (i.e. extending from the left col to the right col at top of y axis (ymax?) but under the column headings? Again I was playing around with modifying the source code but couldn't get a line to sit permanently in position without the position of it moving based on plot size. Out of curiosity how do you get the plots to sit in a "fixed" position regardless of the window/plot sizing?

As I mentioned these are really not 'problems', more aesthetic modifications, so if no easy solution of course that's fine :)

mgirdwood7 commented 2 years ago

Well i found a work around to my first mini problem for anyone interested - specifying col.random = "white" effectively 'hid' the line.

guido-s commented 2 years ago

It took me some time to look into this, however, the issue should be fixed with the new argument 'header.line'.

I would use col.random = "transparent" to remove the random effects line. But the colour white works also.

mgirdwood7 commented 2 years ago

Amazing thank you!