[R] Add text A, B, C and D on multiple ordered plot

[John Kane]

It all depends on where you want the text.  Did the other two replies that I have seen provide a better solution? 

If not can you give us some more description of what you want or point to a graph somewhere on the internet so we can get a better idea of what you want?

John Kane
Kingston ON Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: fabrice.ciup at gmail.com
> Sent: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 15:39:24 -0500
> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
> Subject: Re: [R] Add text A, B, C and D on multiple ordered plot
> 
> John Kane,
> 
> Thanks. It makes some of sense. But it seems not exactly what I want.
> I just remember it need using mtext and adjust margin. I saw such of
> example long time ago, but I have forgotten it.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 3:32 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
>> Here is a rough example of what you want. You will need to adjust the
>> actual placement by hand by redefining the x & y values.
>> 
>> set.seed(100)
>>   a <- rnorm(1000,0,1)
>>   b <-rnorm(1000,0,2)
>>   c <-rnorm(1000,0,3)
>>   d <-rnorm(1000,0,4)
>>    opr  <-  par(mfrow=c(2,2))
>>   hist(a)
>>   text(-3, 150, labels ="a")
>>   hist(b)
>>   text(-4, 150, labels ="b")
>>   hist(c)
>>   text(-4, 150, labels ="c")
>>   hist(d)
>>   text(-4, 150, labels ="d")
>> 
>>   par  <-  opr
>> 
>> 
>> John Kane
>> Kingston ON Canada
>> 
>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: fabrice.ciup at gmail.com
>>> Sent: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:42:10 -0500
>>> To: jrkrideau at inbox.com
>>> Subject: Re: [R] Add text A, B, C and D on multiple ordered plot
>>> 
>>> Thank your reminder.
>>> Here is the example code:
>>> 
>>> a<- rnorm(1000,0,1)
>>> b<-rnorm(1000,0,2)
>>> c<-rnorm(1000,0,3)
>>> d<-rnorm(1000,0,4)
>>> par(mfrow=c(2,2))
>>> hist(a)
>>> hist(b)
>>> hist(c)
>>> hist(d)
>>> 
>>> I want to add A, B, C and D on each top left.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:35 PM, John Kane <jrkrideau at inbox.com> wrote:
>>>> Yes there probably is if you would show us what you are doing.
>>>> Minimal working code helps.
>>>> 
>>>> https://github.com/hadley/devtools/wiki/Reproducibility
>>>> 
>>>> John Kane
>>>> Kingston ON Canada
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: fabrice.ciup at gmail.com
>>>>> Sent: Fri, 8 Feb 2013 14:28:17 -0500
>>>>> To: r-help at r-project.org
>>>>> Subject: [R] Add text A, B, C and D on multiple ordered plot
>>>>> 
>>>>> Dear list,
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a elegant way to name multiple ordered plot as A, B, C and
>>>>> D?
>>>>> Just put A, B, C and D on the top left corner of each plot.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Usually I do it in Illustrator, but I think in R should there is a
>>>>> way.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Could you please provide a example?
>>>>> 
>>>>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>>>> 
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