[R] Avoiding overplotting of text.
hadley wickham
h.wickham at gmail.com
Mon Feb 25 22:36:00 CET 2008
> I am plotting some data, and use text() to get variable names next to
> points on the graph. What is the best way to make sure that these text
> labels are readable and not overlapping when two datapoints are close?
> I've tried using jitter(), but the effect is random and doesn't always
> give a good result.
> Any suggestions would be most appreciated.
Have a look at pointLabel in maptools -
http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/library/maptools/html/pointLabel.html
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