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

[Dietlinde Schmidt]

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?

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
>
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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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