Thank you for your attention and help!
In this way I get the diamond coloured, but actually I would have the
squares representing the values of the individual studies coloured. Is it
somehow possible?

*Paola*


2011/8/24 Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT) <
wolfgang.viechtba...@maastrichtuniversity.nl>

> Thank you, Bernd, for looking into this.
>
> Yes, at the moment, the color of the summary estimate for models without
> moderators is hard-coded (as black). I didn't think people may want to
> change that. I guess I was wrong =)
>
> A dirty solution for the moment is to add:
>
> addpoly(dfs, efac=6, row=-1, col="red", border="red", annotate=F, mlab="")
>
> after the call to forest(). You will get a warning message (since the
> border argument gets passed to the text() function inside addpoly() and
> that's not a par for text), but you can just ignore that.
>
> Best,
>
> --
> Wolfgang Viechtbauer
> Department of Psychiatry and Neuropsychology
> School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
> Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616
> 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
> Tel: +31 (43) 368-5248
> Fax: +31 (43) 368-8689
> Web: http://www.wvbauer.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bernd Weiss [mailto:bernd.we...@uni-koeln.de]
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 24, 2011 16:22
> > To: Paola Tellaroli
> > Cc: w...@metafor-project.org; r-help@r-project.org
> > Subject: Re: [R] Change color in forest.rma (metafor)
> >
> > Am 24.08.2011 07:50, schrieb Paola Tellaroli:
> > > My script is the following:
> > >
> > > library(metafor)
> > >
> > > yi<-c(-0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4)
> > > sei<-c(0.4, 0.2, 0.6, 0.1)
> > > vi<-sei^2
> > > studi<-c("A", "B", "C", "D")
> > > eventi.c<-c(10, 5, 7, 6)
> > > n.c<-c(11, 34, 25, 20)
> > > eventi.a<-c(2, 7, 6, 5)
> > > n.a<-c(11, 35, 25, 15)
> > > dfs<-rma(yi, vi, method="DL")
> > > dfs
> > >
> > > windows(height=6, width=10, pointsize=10)
> > > windowsFonts(B=windowsFont("Bookman Old Style"))
> > >
> > > forest.rma(dfs, slab=studi, xlim=c(-15, 10), ilab=cbind(eventi.c, n.c,
> > > eventi.a, n.a), ilab.xpos=c(-9.5, -8, -6, -4.5), cex=1.2, at=c(-2, -1,
> > 0, 1,
> > > 2), family="B", xlab="Hazard Ratio (log scale)", mlab="Random Effects
> > > Model", efac=5, col="red", border="red")
> > > text(-10, -1.3, paste("Heterogeneity: I-squared=",
> > paste(paste(round(dfs$I2,
> > > 2), "%", sep=""), paste("p", round(dfs$QEp, 4), sep="="), sep=", "),
> > > sep=""), font=4, cex=1.2, family="B")
> > >
> > > op<-par(cex=1.2, font=2, family="B", oma=c(0.5, 0.5, 0.5, 0.5),
> > mar=c(0.5,
> > > 0.5, 0.5, 0.5))
> > > text(x=c(-9.5, -8, -6, -4.5), 6, c("Events", "N", "Events", "N"),
> > cex=1.2 )
> > > text(c(-8.7, -5.5, 8), 6.5, c("S", "A", "Log"))
> > > text(-15, 6, "Trials", pos=4)
> > > text(10, 6, "Hazard Ratio [95% CI]", pos=2)
> > > par(op)
> > >
> > > Even if I have specified "col="red", border="red"", color of squares
> and
> > > diamond rests black! Why?
> >
> > As far as I know, "col" and "border" do only affect the fitted values
> > ("diamonds"), i.e. the FEM/REM estimators (see ?forest.rma: "col:
> > character string specifying the name of a color to use for _the fitted_
> > values ('"darkgray"' by default).")
> >
> > Furthermore, I had a quick look at the source code and it might be a
> > bug. If I replace in line 2770 the line
> >
> > cex * efac), col = "black", ...)
> >
> > with
> >
> > cex * efac), col = col, ...)
> >
> > you can at least specify your own colour. Changing the border color
> > seems a bit more tricky...
> >
> > However, Wolfgang Viechbauer (the package author) is always a very
> > responsive and helpful person and I suggest you better wait for his
> > answer.
> >
> > Bernd
>
>

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