Original stack overflow post here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52194719/r-graphic-text-package-adj-parameter-order-wrong-incorrect-reversed
Hopefully this is now the appropriate place to post this as the above post got a single comment of agreement. Content: I believe R core package graphics text function's adj parameter is incorrectly described in the manual <https://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-devel/library/graphics/html/text.html> and would be grateful if someone could confirm this before I submit a bug report <https://www.r-project.org/bugs.html>. adj text: adj allows adjustment of the text with respect to (x, y). Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify left/bottom, middle and right/top alignment, respectively. Since text controls these labels and not the points which have already been plotted, I can't see how "with respect to x,y" can mean anything other than "in this direction relative to their points". However the order is reversed: 0,0 (supposedly left & bottom) is top & right; 1,1 (supposedly right & top) is left and bottom. Reproducible example: tens = 1:10 plot(tens, tens, xlab = "adj 0,0 left/bottom") text(tens, tens, labels = letters[tens], adj = c(0,0)) plot(tens, tens, xlab = "adj 0.5,0.5 middle") text(tens, tens, labels = letters[tens], adj = c(0.5,0.5)) plot(tens, tens, xlab = "adj 1,1 right/top") text(tens, tens, labels = letters[tens], adj = c(1,1)) Thanks. [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-package-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-package-devel
