David Reitter wrote: > It's probably a beginner's question: > > How do I show text in boxes? > That is, can I specify a background color for text output with text() ? > > The following doesn't work as I would expect: > > text(labels="123", 50, 0.5, bg="green") > > I've experimented with legend(),which will make the box too wide, and > also with rect(), which doesn't know the extent of the text shown. > > The concrete application for this is are multiple time series shown > in different colors, and I'd like to show the boxed text (with the > appropriate colors) right next to (the maximum of) each time series > in the diagram. Color text is hard to read, so I'd like nice colored > boxes around black text. > Have a look at the plotrix package, particularly "textbox" and "boxed.labels". I would like to know if there are any enhancements you could suggest, as I am close to uploading the next version.
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