Look at the spread.labs function in the TeachingDemos package or the spread.labels function in the plotrix package.
-----Original Message----- From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On Behalf Of David martin Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 8:07 AM To: r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: [R] text overlap in plot Hey, Here is a snippet that generated a boxplot and separates points so that they do not overlap. I have a problem to avoir text overlapping. Any help would be helpful. > attach(InsectSprays) boxplot(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays, outpch = NA) stripchart(count ~ spray, data = InsectSprays, vertical = TRUE, method = "jitter", pch = 21, col = "maroon", bg = "bisque", add = TRUE) text(count ~ spray , row.names(InsectSprays), pos=4,cex=0.6) detach(InsectSprays) thanks david ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.