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)
* 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).
On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 10:56 PM, <538280 at gmail.com> wrote:
An alternative is the shadowtext function in the TeachingDemos package. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Jim Lemon <jim at bitwrit.com.au> wrote:
On 02/06/2012 08:23 AM, Henry wrote:
New to R - rookie question. I'm a mechanical engineer and enjoying using R to make high quality graphs. I've searched. I want to put text notation on graph plot areas and have the text background "box" white to cover over the grid lines. my command so far.... text(15,5200,"Air Flow",cex=.8,col="blue", background="white") # this doesn't work... I've tried bg="white", background color="white" and a number of other attempts. The text is getting placed on the chart where I want it.
Hi Henry, have a look at the boxed.labels function in the plotrix package. Jim
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