How about using the legend function ... plot(rnorm(100)) legend(60,2,"100 Random Normal Draws",cex=.8,text.col="blue", box.col="red",bg="yellow")
You can customize my effort to fit your specific needs HTH Pete Henry wrote > > New to R - rookie question. > I'm a mechanical engineer and enjoying using R to make high quality > graphs. > > I've searched. > > I want to put text notation on graph plot areas and have the text > background "box" white to cover over the grid lines. > > my command so far.... > text(15,5200,"Air Flow",cex=.8,col="blue", background="white") # this > doesn't work... > > I've tried bg="white", background color="white" and a number of other > attempts. > > The text is getting placed on the chart where I want it. > > Thanks, > -Henry > -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/text-command-how-to-get-a-white-background-to-cover-grid-lines-tp4359826p4359840.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
