NEWS for the forestplot package

Changes for 1.10

• Minor improvement for error message when plotting lines
• Bugfix for multicolumn expressions (issue #30, thanks André Gillibert)
• Added shapes_gp parameter (issue #32, thanks André Gillibert)

Changes for 1.9

• Fixed bug for factor label argument

Changes for 1.8

• Fixed issue #10 with non-log grid lines
• Supressing the “zero” line #8
• Fixed bug when automatic lower/upper are to be identified and the data contains NA
• Fixed bug reported related to legends on SO: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/43217570/forestplot-want-to-give-legend-for-each-4-colums

Changes for 1.7

• Fixed bug when mergin gpar() with font & fontface options (thanks Katherine T. Mills)
• Fixed input bug with 3-dim array
• Improved autodetection of upper and lower intervals

Changes for 1.6

• Changed forestplot function to S3 style (thanks Christian Röver)
• Fixed bug with alignment for summary elements
• When any of the inputs is missing for a line the line is skipped (issue #5)
• Added checkmate for argument validation
• Added option of just specifying the rows that the CI should be applied to (issue #7)
• Added fpDrawBarCI (thanks Christian Röver)
• Fixed xlog bug
• Added a colgap option
• Bug fix for plots wider than the div (Thanks Michael Obeda for reporting)

Changes for 1.5

• Changed new_page to default to TRUE
• Removed warnings for compatibility
• Fixed so that squared multiline tables should now follow color behavior

Changes for 1.4

• Added a bug fix for when number of colors isn’t equal to the dimension of the input causing the box not to be drawn
• Fixed bug concerning vertical offset for clippers

Changes for 1.3

• Fixed bug when specifying graphwidth
• Added ability to tailor the tick text
• Added vertices example to vignette

Changes for 1.2

• Line-type can be specified
• Line endings can now be marked by a T vertice, this default for all line types other than 1
• The arrow height defaults to the same height as the vertices
• Added a grid option
• Improved documentation

Changes for 1.1

• Multiple lines can now have NA values
• Added ability to position the graph
• Added ability to generate horizontal lines
• Minor documentation changes

Changes for 1.0

• Separation from the Gmisc-package
• Name change - forestplot2 is now just forestplot in order to allow a deprecated call within the Gmisc package without generating a conflict
• The fontfamily arguments are now embedded in the txt_gp that takes input from the fpTxtGp function. The fonts for the labels/summaries can be specified down to the cell level.
• If provided a vector of length two for the zero argument you get an area for the zero-effect
• There is a maximum colgap length for the box corresponding to the box height
• confintNormalFn, confintSummaryFn, legendMarkerFn are now called fn.ci_norm, fn.ci_sum, fn.legend
• Argument main in forestplot has changed to title