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Message-ID: <49F2F613.4040706@bitwrit.com.au>
Date: 2009-04-25T11:37:55Z
From: Jim Lemon
Subject: Text Contrast in a Plot
In-Reply-To: <49f1c8ce.04c2f10a.6495.42ad@mx.google.com>

Rodrigo Aluizio wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> I would appreciate any suggestion on how can I make a text I?ve inserted in
> a plot show some contrast? With this I mean that I have a white text on a
> plot and I would like to make a tiny border around it in black, so even
> being small sized and the entire graphic being small in the text page I?ll
> insert it. It will be visible.
>
>  
>
> Well I tried inserting a box() function inside the text() function, R
> accepts the command but there is no effect. I even tried to plot a greater
> black text and then a smaller white one at the same place, but it doesn?t
> look good.
>   
Hi Rodrigo,
Try boxed.labels in the plotrix package.

Jim