ggforest please add optional printed variable names

[PeterStrom]

Would be very nice to have an argument for printing different variable names than what is in the columns of the data.frame. E.g.

ggforest(... , printNames=c(age="Age at birth", country="Country at birth"))

That would make the plot ready for publication. Even if it is possible to name variables in a data.frame "Age at birth", it is very cumbersome to work with.

[helenajr]

I agree!

[kremerkm]

I also would like this function. I haven't even been able to find a work around but admittedly i'm kind of new to R and coding of functions.

[corneliushennch]

Or how about implementing the use of labelled variables using the labelled package. forestmodel can do this for other models, but coxph doesn't work properly at the moment, as I elaborated on here:

NikNakk/forestmodel#24 (comment)

[rganly]

This would be an extremely useful option; otherwise the plots are messy and cannot be shared for presentations or publishing. There is also no option to omit certain covariates from the ggforest plot.

[corneliushennch]

The best solution I found so far was the finalfit package. Its hr_plot function makes really nice hr_plots and it's quite easy to customize since it's also based on ggplot. I really like the whole package for clinical/survival analyses as it is super easy to use if you are familiar with the tidyverse packages and its philosophy.

[GiorgiaCaruana]

Hello! Just re-opening the topic, do you know if the bug on labels has somehow been fixed on ggforest? The graph is otherwise perfect but I don't know how to fix it for publication...

[txhays]

Hi, I was struggling with this too. Just came up with a messy work around. I made custom panels and manually wrote each row.

res.cox <- coxph(Surv(time, status) ~ Positive_ES + Sex + Race + CAKUT + Laterality, CAKUTSurv)

panels <- list(
  list(width = 0.03),
  list(width = 0.1, display = c("Genetic Disorder","","Sex","","Race","","","","CAKUT","","","","","","","Laterality",""),
       fontface = "bold", heading = "Variable"),
  list(width = 0.1, display = ~level),
  list(width = 0.05, display = ~n, hjust = 1, heading = "N"),
  list(width = 0.03, item = "vline", hjust = 0.5),
  list(width = 0.55, item = "forest", hjust = 0.5, heading = "Hazard ratio", linetype = "dashed",
       line_x = 0),
  list(width = 0.03, item = "vline", hjust = 0.5),
  list(width = 0.12, display = ~ ifelse(reference, "Reference", sprintf(
    "%0.2f (%0.2f, %0.2f)",
    trans(estimate), trans(conf.low), trans(conf.high)
  )), display_na = NA),
  list(
    width = 0.05,
    display = ~ ifelse(reference, "", format.pval(p.value, digits = 1, eps = 1e-5)),
    display_na = NA, hjust = 1, heading = "P-value"
  ),
  list(width = 0.03)
)



forest_model(res.cox, panels, factor_separate_line = FALSE)

hope this helps.

[arielhasidim]

+1

The issue is mentioned at SO with an alternative package...
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/73185232/survminer-ggforest-how-to-change-variable-names