R Observatory: Metrics for forestplot version 3.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

forestplot

3.2.0

Advanced Forest Plot Using 'grid' Graphics

17packages depend

197.3Kdownloads / year

77.0%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Max GordonFirst published 2014-12-3022 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Allows the creation of forest plots with advanced features, such as multiple confidence intervals per row, customizable fonts for individual text elements, and flexible confidence interval drawing. It also supports mixing text with mathematical expressions. The package extends the application of forest plots beyond traditional meta-analyses, offering a more general version of the original 'rmeta' package’s forestplot() function. It relies heavily on the 'grid' package for rendering the plots.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("forestplot", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("gforge/forestplot")

Development version from gforge/forestplot. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-forestplot

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-forestplot

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-forestplot

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 3.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.34

77.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-07-16
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 208 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

197.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #936 · ~541/day · ~16.4K/mo

Releases R versions

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15.3K30 days

47.9K90 days

197.3K1 year

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Also on560 r2u13 autocran4.8K conda_forge87 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ gforge/forestplot

52Stars

17Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

2Releases

227Commits

4Contributors

forestplotcranr

227 commits · Last activity 2026-03-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-25 · 442026-07-07 · 52

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/gforge/forestplot on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 4.1.0gridcheckmate abind

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (14)

dplyr Gmisc Greg knitr purrr rlang rmarkdown rmeta rms testthat tibble tidyr tidyselect tidyverse

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

17direct

3indirect

Greg bayesmeta ofGEM BayesCACE CPBayes Gmisc IDMIR MetaStan NMA baggr causalPAF chest door impower133 multifear rADA pkr

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Max Gordon

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Max Gordon

Author, Maintainer

Thomas Lumley

Author, Contributor

Contributors (1)

Thomas Lumley

Author, Contributor

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2014-12-30
Total releases: 22 / 12 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 3.1 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Gordon, M., & Lumley, T. (2026). forestplot: Advanced Forest Plot Using 'grid' Graphics (Version 3.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.forestplot

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for forestplot version 3.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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