You might want to have a look at thigmophobe.labels in the plotrix package.
--- On Fri, 7/24/09, Ana Conesa <acon...@cipf.es> wrote: > From: Ana Conesa <acon...@cipf.es> > Subject: [R] Stting non-overlaping text positions > To: r-help@r-project.org > Received: Friday, July 24, 2009, 8:29 AM > Dear List > > I am having problems to set text labels in a scatter plot. > At some areas dots > are close and labels overlap and texts cannot be read. I > have too many dots > to adjust this manually. Is there any function that will > calculate the label > offsets to avoid this overlapping problem? > > Thanks > > > Ana > > -- > Ana Conesa > Bioinformatics and Genomics Department > Centro de Investigaciones Principe Felipe > Avda. Autopista Saler 16, > 46012 Valencia, Spain > Phone: +34 96 328 96 80 > Fax: +34 96 328 97 01 > http://bioinfo.cipf.es/aconesa > http://www.blast2go.org > ========================================== > FIRST INTERNATIONAL COURSE IN AUTOMATED > FUNCTIONAL ANNOTATION AND DATA MINING > Valencia/Orlando, September/October 2009 > http://bioinfo.cipf.es/blast2gocourse > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > __________________________________________________________________ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ ______________________________________________ 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.