R Observatory: Metrics for forestploter version 1.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

forestploter

1.2.0Package record

Create a Flexible Forest Plot

8packages dependsuggested by 1

59.8Kdownloads / year

95.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

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Maintained by Alimu DayimuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create a forest plot based on the layout of the data. Confidence intervals in multiple columns by groups can be done easily. The plot is built step by step with the pipe, adding the axis, the labels and a style, editing the plot, inserting/adding text, and much more.

Changes in 1.2.0

Breaking changes

sizes is now a multiple of one line of text for both points and summary diamonds, where it used to be char for one and a fraction of the row height for the other. **Summary diamonds are flatter than in 1.1.4**; pass a larger sizes to restore the old look.
Point size now follows the theme's base_size instead of the pointsize of whichever device happened to be open. Unchanged at the default base_size.
Summary rows in grouped plots grow to the height the group offsets need, rather than always doubling.

New features

The plot is now built step by step with the pipe |>. forest() draws the table and the confidence intervals, and the rest is added with set_xaxis() (limits, tick marks, scale and vertical lines), set_labs() (title, x-axis labels, footnote, arrow labels and legend text), scale_sizes() (point sizes from study weights) and set_style(). They must be used before the plot is edited with edit_plot() and the other editing functions.
Graphical parameters are set with forest_style(), which takes one gpar() for each part of the plot and is given to the new style argument of forest(). forest_theme() is superseded but keeps working, also with set_style(); ?forest_theme shows how its arguments map onto forest_style().
New fit of forest_style() lets the plot use the space it is drawn in: "width" gives the free width to the CI columns and "both" also shares the free height between the rows. The default "none" keeps the natural size of the plot, as before. The autofit argument of print() will be deprecated in favour of it.
New scale_sizes() to scale study weights into point sizes, following metafor and meta. Without it, sizes are used as they are (#37).
A warning is given when the plot is drawn if sizes falls outside 0.1 to 2, or if grouped confidence intervals are likely to overlap given nudge_y.
In the new functions, an argument left out keeps its current value and NULL goes back to the default. NA is only used for a CI column left at its default, as in xlim = list(c(0, 4), NA).

Superseded

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The arguments of forest() that the functions above replace are still accepted and draw the same plot. Each of them gives a message once per session pointing to its replacement: xlim, ticks_at, ticks_digits, ticks_minor, x_trans and vert_line to set_xaxis(), and arrow_lab, xlab, title and footnote to set_labs(), and theme to style. They will be removed in 2.0.0.
forest() now gives a message once per session for an argument in ... that neither fn_ci, fn_summary nor index_args takes, instead of dropping it silently. The argument is still ignored.
The package now requires R >= 4.1.0 for the native pipe used in the examples.

Bug fixes

Fix automatic ticks_digits dropping decimals on linear axes, which rendered fractional ticks with duplicated labels (e.g. 1, 1.5, 2 as "1", "2", "2").
Fix error when gp is passed to forest with summary rows.
Error if the length of est is not a multiple of the length of ci_column, instead of silently dropping the extra series.
Replace gridtext with gridmicrotex in the vignettes, so the annotation examples are typeset as real LaTeX math.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("forestploter", 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("adayim/forestploter")

Development version from adayim/forestploter. 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-forestploter

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-forestploter

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-forestploter

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

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Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

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Documentation

In release 1.2.0

READMEYes · 525 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 27 (9 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 88%7 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

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Downloads

59.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,618 · ~164/day · ~5K/mo

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How downloads are counted

Repository

adayim/forestploter ↗Account: adayim

127Stars

12Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

15Releases

216Commits

1Commit identities

rforestplot

216 commits · Last activity 2026-09-30 · +2.4% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 50
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-10-23 · 1092026-10-19 · 127

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PracticesBeta

9 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/adayim/forestploter on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

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The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-30 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-30

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing forestploter adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 2.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, cli 629 KB, gridExtra 469 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

gridgridExtra gtable

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none

Suggests (6)

gridmicrotex rmarkdown knitr vdiffr testthat covr

Enhances (0)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

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Imports 8

Suggested by 1

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Author, Maintainer since 0.0.1 (2022)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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Package metadata

First published: 2022-01-11
Total releases: 21 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.8 MB

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Dayimu, A. (2026). forestploter: Create a Flexible Forest Plot (Version 1.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.forestploter

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for forestploter version 1.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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