Message-ID: <971536df0901131901oac6c007jc29919bc609f5e53@mail.gmail.com>
Date: 2009-01-14T03:01:47Z
From: Gabor Grothendieck
Subject: Testing for blank space in a plot
In-Reply-To: <20090113170255.17944rphovwobzbj@webmail2.bio.fsu.edu>
See ?emptyspace in the plotrix package.
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM, John Fort <jfort at bio.fsu.edu> wrote:
> I have written code which puts text to the upper right of points on a plot.
> Some of my point are very close together and the new text is writing over
> the previous text.
>
> Has anyone written a clever "smart-text" function that writes the text in a
> blank spot near the point (perhaps on the lower left or lower right side)
> when it discovers that the new space is not blank.
>
> I could write such a function if there was an is.blank(x,y) command. Does
> something like that exist?
>
> Thanks.
>
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