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Add Text to a Plot

Description

text draws the strings given in the vector labels at the coordinates given by x and y. y may be missing since xy.coords(x,y) is used for construction of the coordinates.

Usage

text (x, ...)
text.default (x, y = NULL, labels = seq(along = x), adj = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x, y

numeric vectors of coordinates where the text labels should be written. If the length of x and y differs, the shorter one is recycled.

labels

character or expression with the text to be written.

adj

character or expression with the text to be written.

...

further graphical parameters (from par), such as cex, etc.

Details

labels must be of type character or expression. In the latter case, quite a bit of mathematical notation is available such as sub- and superscripts, greek letters, fractions, etc.

adj allows adjustment of the text with respect to (x,y).

See Also

mtext, title.

Examples

plot(-1:1,-1:1, type = "n", xlab = "Re", ylab = "Im")
K <- 16; text(exp(1i * 2 * pi * (1:K) / K), col = 2)

plot(1:10, 1:10, main = "text(..) examples\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~",