About 3 years ago I published some code on this blog to draw a Kaplan-Meier plot using ggplot2. Since then, ggplot2 has been updated (from 0.8.9 to 0.9.3.1) and has changed syntactically. Since that post, I have also become comfortable with Git and Github. I have updated the code, edited it for a small error, and published it in a Gist. This gist has two functions, ggkm (basic Kaplan-Meier plot) and ggkmTable (enhanced Kaplan-Meier plot with table showing numbers at risk at various times).

This gist is published here. If you find errors or want to enhance these functions, please fork, update and send me a link to your fork in the comments. I’ll pull and merge them. Unfortunately Github doesn’t allow pull requests directly for gists (see here for the StackOverflow answer I’m basing this on).

If you want to go back to the original post, you can read it here.