[R] How to do a meta-analysis plot

[Thomas Lumley]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Jorge Ivan Velez wrote:
> My problem is that I don't have the raw data as rmeta _requires_ and, even
> when I have my data set in the _same_ (?) format that summary(a), when I
> tried plot(mydata) it doesn't work.

No, it doesn't _require_ that.

If you just want a forest plot then use forestplot() or metaplot().

If you want to do a meta-analysis from summary data use meta.summaries().

 	-thomas