You might look at 'jitter' to add a little offset to the labels being plotted.
On Dec 3, 2007 9:21 AM, Biscarini, Filippo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good evening, > > I am trying to add labels to the point of a simple plot, using the > text() function; the problem is that sometimes, if two points are too > close to each other, labels overlap and are no longer readable. > I was wondering whether there are options that I can use to prevent this > overlapping (by, for example, placing labels alternatively above and > below the plotted curve), or whether I should use another set of > graphical functions (grid or lattice packages). > Does anybody have suggestions? > > Thank you, > > Filippo Biscarini > > PS: These are the lines of codes that I have been using to generate the > plot. > > plot( > prova$x, > prova$y, > type="b", > mar=c(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.5), > xlab="basepairs", > ylab="" > ); > > text( > prova$x, > prova$y, > prova$lab, > pos=3, > offset=2, > cex=0.5 > ); > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Jim Holtman Cincinnati, OH +1 513 646 9390 What is the problem you are trying to solve? ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
