[R] text command - how to get a white background to cover grid lines
Pete Brecknock
Peter.Brecknock at bp.com
Sun Feb 5 22:33:51 CET 2012
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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