[R] metafor package: changing decimal in forest plot to midline decimal

[Michael Dewey]

At 09:08 07/07/2014, Dietlinde Schmidt wrote:
>Thanks for that link, Wolfgang. Unfortunately, 
>there comes the Warning with it:
>"(process:3634): Pango-WARNING **: Invalid UTF-8 
>string passed to pango_layout_set_text()"
>and decimal being "scrambled" in forest plot and 
>not displaying the midline decimal.
>
>I think it has to do with the fact, that only 
>1-byte-codes are allowed for options(OutDec="\xB7").
>Or does it have to do with me using Ubuntu?

I am not an expert on encodings but I think that 
in Unicode it is indeed two bytes but for some 
reason in the encoding used in Windows it is a 
single byte. It may be that some expert in 
encodings can tell you how to temporarily reset 
your locale in Ubuntu but I am not that expert.


>Apart from that the options-command does not 
>seem to change the decimal of values on the "true" x-axis under the plot.
>
>Still searching for a solution.
>
>Cheers,
>Linde
>
>Am 05.07.2014 19:06, schrieb Viechtbauer Wolfgang (STAT):
>>I found this:
>>
>>https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2012-August/321057.html
>>
>>So, use this before drawing the forest plot:
>>
>>options(OutDec="\xB7")
>>
>>Best,
>>Wolfgang
>>
>>--
>>Wolfgang Viechtbauer, Ph.D., Statistician
>>Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
>>School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
>>Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences
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>>[r-help-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of 
>>Dietlinde Schmidt [schmidt.dietlinde at web.de]
>>Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2014 3:07 PM
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>>Subject: [R] metafor package: changing decimal 
>>in forest plot to midline        decimal
>>
>>Dear R-Community,
>>
>>I need to change the punctuation of the reported weights, effect sizes
>>and confidence intervals in a forest plot created with the
>>forest()-function in the metafor-package.
>>
>>Midline decimal means that it looks like this (23·6) rather than that
>>(23.6).
>>
>>Do I need to change the forest()-function and if yes which part exactly?
>>Or is there an otherway how I can do it maybe by changing the
>>rma()-function, of which the forest()-function is then applied to?
>>
>>Thanks for any hints and tipps!
>>
>>Cheers, Linde
>>
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