An alternative is the shadowtext function in the TeachingDemos package. On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Jim Lemon <j...@bitwrit.com.au> wrote: > On 02/06/2012 08:23 AM, 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. >> > Hi Henry, > have a look at the boxed.labels function in the plotrix package. > > Jim > > > ______________________________________________ > 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.
-- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. 538...@gmail.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.
