[R] label option in 'barplot'?

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Thu Jan 18 10:56:40 CET 2007


Try this where you probably only want one of the last two lines:


# population of 5 US states
pop <- state.x77[1:5,1]
bp <- barplot(pop, ylim = range(pop) * c(0, 1.1))
text(bp, pop, pop, adj = c(0.5, -0.5))  # place num above bar
mtext(1, at = bp, text = pop, line = 3)  # place num below label


On 1/17/07, Justin Gengler <jgengler at umich.edu> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> When using the 'barplot' function, how would one go about creating
> labels on the top of the bars corresponding to the actual frequency
> values (i.e., the height of the bar).  For histograms, one can use
> the 'LABEL=T' parameter to this effect, but it is not available for
> barplot.  Must one manually create such labels for a barplot (perhaps
> using mtext)?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Justin Gengler
>
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