[R] Putting a text box in a plot

baptiste auguie baptiste.auguie at googlemail.com
Mon Sep 21 12:13:37 CEST 2009


Where do you want this text to be placed then?

maybe a call to legend(), or mtext() would suffice, it's hard to say
more without a reproducible example.


baptiste



2009/9/21 Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com>:
> Hi, Baptiste
>
> Yes, I've found textplot() function, but I doubt it is the one I need.
> What I have is a density plot, and I want to add to this density plot
> a text box containing the stats I mentioned in previous email.
> I could do that kind of stuff with simple text() function, but then
> everytime x values change I will have to change x-axis output
> coordinates in text() function.
> No, there must be another function somewhere that produces these text boxes.
>
> Best,
> Sergey
>
> On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 11:49, baptiste auguie
> <baptiste.auguie at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Maybe the textplot() function in the gplots package?
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> baptiste
>>
>> 2009/9/21 Sergey Goriatchev <sergeyg at gmail.com>:
>>> Hello everyone,
>>>
>>> I have a plot and I want to but a (formatted) box containing text and
>>> numbers, say:
>>> Mean: 0.1
>>> St.Deviation: 1.1
>>> Skewness: 1.1
>>> Kurtosis: 0.5
>>>
>>> I know there is a way to do this, there is a function in some library,
>>> but it's been years since
>>> I used this function, and I do not remember where I found it.
>>> Could anyone help out?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!
>>> Sergey
>>>
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