How to format a graphic size to better visualization? - r

I'm conducting a meta-analysis (MA). I used the standard R command to conduct the analysis. My MA has many studies to analyze.
e.g. 30 studies to make the pooled analysis. After the command of the forest plot, I click on zoom to see the graph. However, the graph occupies the entire screen and many data do not appear.
For example, only the middle of the graph appears, but the top and bottom do not appear.
I tried to understand the ggplot2 and images packages, but I did not succeed.
How could fix this problem?

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Forest plot (metafor) with 90 effect sizes: how to make text readable and adjust row spacing

I am working on a forest plot with the metafor package. With the help of (http://www.metafor-project.org/doku.php/plots:forest_plot_with_subgroups) and several forum entries I wrote a code but unfortunately the letters are blurry. I tried making the plot bigger with windows () which did help a bit but still it is not ready for putting in a paper.
It looked like this:also blurry with zooming in
When I used only a subset of effect sizes for the subgroup analysis the forest plot the text was better readable but only until about 15 effect sizes). And because the row spacing is so narrow I can´t even think about putting summary polygons for subgroups in between.
This was the code I used for my data (90 effect sizes in multilevel model):
forest(Model1,
slab= data$Author, #labeled by author
# cex=0.75, #only made the text bigger but did not change the row distance, so the text overlapped
ylim=c(-1, 100),
header="Author(s) and Year")
There were a lot of extra arguments in examples of forest plots I saw online but I am not sure of their meaning in forest plot.
Does someone know how to solve this spacing problem or what arguments I need to add to the code e.g. to broaden the space between the rows? Is there a “guide” for working with forest?
Thank you very much in advance!
Blurriness has nothing to do with the forest() function - it's a matter of how you are saving the plot. You should use functions like png() with a high enough resolution. Or use pdf() where you can zoom in to your heart's content without ever seeing any blurriness.
As for a "guide", I would suggest reading the documentation first:
https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/forest.rma.html
https://wviechtb.github.io/metafor/reference/forest.default.html
Then you will start to understand what the arguments do.

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