text command - how to get a white background to cover grid lines
On 09/07/2012 07:30 AM, Levi Waldron wrote:
For posterity, I found the TeachingDemos::shadowtext option most
agreeable for this problem:
* legend puts a large box around the text which did not seem
possible to shrink, and does not accept vector x, y arguments
* plotrix::boxed.labels did not work with pos=4 (this moved the
text, but not the box)
True, boxed.labels just passes arguments such as "pos" to the "text" function. You probably want something like: boxed.labels(15,5200,"Air Flow",bg="white",border=NA)
* TeachingDemos::shadowtext puts an opaque "shadow" around the text, rather than a box, which obscures a minimum of background while still making the labels readable. col="black", bg="white" options produced this effect (default options are opposite this).
However, shadowtext does the job just as well. Jim