[R] how to add notes to the graph?

Dieter Menne dieter.menne at menne-biomed.de
Mon Jul 28 17:54:02 CEST 2008


rlearner309 <unixunix99 <at> gmail.com> writes:

> x <- c(1,2,3)
> plot(x, pch=16,type="b")
> 
> I would like to add some notes just beside these 3 dots, and the notes are
> stored in a vector:
> 
> a <- c(12,54,84)  
> 
> So the result will be: there should be a "12" below the first dot (or next
> to it, but not replacing the solid dot), a "54" next to the second dot...
> 
> what if a is not numeric? a <- c("a","b","c")

Not very general, but good as a starter:

text(1:length(x),x-0.1,x)

text(1:length(x),x-0.1,a)

Dieter



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