R help - May 2009 - arrangement of crowded labels

Dear R users

I'm looking for algorithms that assist in spreading out crowded labels, e.g.
labels of points in a scatter plot, in order to obtain a nicer visual 
appearance and better legibility. 

I'm probably just stuck because I didn't find the right key words for a 
successful search on the R websites or in the mailing list archives.

Any hints are appreciated.

Thomas Zumbrunn
University of Basel

> I'm looking for algorithms that assist in spreading out crowded labels,
e.g. 
> labels of points in a scatter plot, in order to obtain a nicer visual 
> appearance and better legibility. 
> 
> I'm probably just stuck because I didn't find the right key words
for a
> successful search on the R websites or in the mailing list archives.
Try thigmophobe.labels in the plotrix package.

Regards,
Richie.

Mathematical Sciences Unit
HSL


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Look at the spread.labs and the dynIdentify and TkIdentify functions in the
TeachingDemos package.

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Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

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> Dear R users
> 
> I'm looking for algorithms that assist in spreading out crowded labels,
> e.g.
> labels of points in a scatter plot, in order to obtain a nicer visual
> appearance and better legibility.
> 
> I'm probably just stuck because I didn't find the right key words
for a
> successful search on the R websites or in the mailing list archives.
> 
> Any hints are appreciated.
> 
> Thomas Zumbrunn
> University of Basel
> 
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