forrest

0.3.0

Publication-Ready Forest Plots

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1.8Kdownloads / year

91.4%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Lorenzo FabbriFirst published 2026-03-311 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Creates publication-ready forest plots from any tabular data containing point estimates and confidence intervals. Suitable for visualising results from regression models, meta-analyses, subgroup analyses, or any comparative study. Supports group and subgroup headings, summary estimates displayed as diamonds, grouped estimates with automatic colour and shape mapping, vertical dodging of multiple estimates within the same row, customisable text columns alongside the plot, and optional row striping. Provides a helper to export plots to PDF, PNG, SVG, or TIFF. Built on 'tinyplot' for clean, consistent visual styling with a minimal dependency footprint.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("forrest", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("lorenzoFabbri/forrest")

Development version from lorenzoFabbri/forrest. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-forrest

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-forrest

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-oldrel-macos-arm64

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Check history

NOTE2026-06-09
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
11 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-01
4 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ lorenzofabbri/forrest

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epidemiologyforest-plotsmeta-analysisplottingrstats

22 commits · Last activity 2026-04-03 · 0% stars, 30d

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cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (1)

tinyplot

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Lorenzo Fabbri

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Authors (1)

Lorenzo Fabbri

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Lorenzo Fabbri

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.3.0Latest
2026-03-31 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-03-31
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
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