New version (v0.2-3) of ‘RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2’ (an Rcmdr plug-in; a GUI for ‘ggplot2’) released.

• RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2 (CRAN)

NEWS

Changes in version 0.2-3 (2015-12-30)

• New geom_stepribbon().
• Pointwise confidence intervals of Kaplan-Meier plots with band (Thanks to Dr. M. Felix Freshwater).
• Notched box plots (Thanks to Dr. M. Felix Freshwater).
• Stratified (colored) box plots (Thanks to Dr. M. Felix Freshwater).

Changes in version 0.2-2 (2015-12-22)

• New ggplot2’s theme (theme_linedraw, theme_light).
• New ggthemes’s themes (theme_base, theme_par).
• Fixed a bug was caused by new ggplot2’s theme.
• Fixed a bug related to ggthemes 3.0.0.
• Fixed a bug related to windows fonts.
• Fixed a bug related to file saving.
• Added a vignette for dataset requirements to make Kaplan-Meier plot.
• Added a vignette for extrafont.

geom_stepribbon()

The geom_stepribbon is an extension of the geom_ribbon, and is optimized for Kaplan-Meier plots with pointwise confidence intervals or a confidence band.

Usage

geom_stepribbon(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, stat = "identity",
  position = "identity", na.rm = FALSE, show.legend = NA,
  inherit.aes = TRUE, kmplot = FALSE, ...)

The additional argument

• kmplot
  • If TRUE, missing values are replaced by the previous values. This option is needed to make Kaplan-Meier plots if the last observation has an event, in which case the upper and lower values of the last observation are missing. This processing is optimized for results from the survfit function.

Other arguments are the same as the geom_ribbon.

Example

require("ggplot2")
data(dataKm, package = "RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2")

.df <- na.omit(data.frame(x = dataKm$time, y = dataKm$event, z = dataKm$trt))
.df <- .df[do.call(order, .df[, c("z", "x"), drop = FALSE]), , drop = FALSE]
.fit <- survival::survfit(
  survival::Surv(time = x, event = y, type = "right") ~ z, .df)
.fit <- data.frame(x = .fit$time, y = .fit$surv, nrisk = .fit$n.risk, 
  nevent = .fit$n.event, ncensor= .fit$n.censor, upper = .fit$upper,
  lower = .fit$lower)
.df <- .df[!duplicated(.df[,c("x", "z")]), ]
.df <- .fit <- data.frame(.fit, .df[, c("z"), drop = FALSE])
.df <- .fit <- rbind(unique(data.frame(x = 0, y = 1, nrisk = NA, nevent = NA,
  ncensor = NA, upper = 1, lower = 1, .df[, c("z"), drop = FALSE])), .fit)
.cens <- subset(.fit, ncensor == 1)

ggplot(data = .fit, aes(x = x, y = y, colour = z)) + 
  RcmdrPlugin.KMggplot2::geom_stepribbon(data = .fit,
    aes(x = x, ymin = lower, ymax = upper, fill = z), alpha = 0.25,
    colour = "transparent", show.legend = FALSE, kmplot = TRUE) +
  geom_step(size = 1.5) +
  geom_linerange(data = .cens, aes(x = x, ymin = y, ymax = y + 0.02),
    size = 1.5) + 
  scale_x_continuous(breaks = seq(0, 21, by = 7), limits = c(0, 21)) + 
  scale_y_continuous(limits = c(0, 1), expand = c(0.01, 0)) + 
  scale_colour_brewer(palette = "Set1") +
  scale_fill_brewer(palette = "Set1") +
  xlab("Time from entry") +
  ylab("Proportion of survival") +
  labs(colour = "trt") +
  theme_bw(base_size = 14, base_family = "sans") + 
  theme(legend.position = "right")

Pointwise confidence intervals of Kaplan-Meier plots with band

Notched box plots and stratified (colored) box plots