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. Thanks, -Henry -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/text-command-how-to-get-a-white-background-to-cover-grid-lines-tp4359826p4359826.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
text command - how to get a white background to cover grid lines
4 messages · Henry, Pete Brecknock, Jim Lemon +1 more
How about using the legend function ... plot(rnorm(100)) legend(60,2,"100 Random Normal Draws",cex=.8,text.col="blue", box.col="red",bg="yellow") You can customize my effort to fit your specific needs HTH Pete 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. Thanks, -Henry
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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
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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