R help - Jul 2014 - 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

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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Department of Psychiatry and Psychology
School for Mental Health and Neuroscience
Faculty of Health, Medicine, and Life Sciences
Maastricht University, P.O. Box 616 (VIJV1)
6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
+31 (43) 388-4170 | http://www.wvbauer.com
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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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