[R] Text in Boxes?

[Jim Lemon]

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.

Jim