[R] text command - how to get a white background to cover grid lines

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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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