There are 2 functions in the development version of the TeachingDemos package (the version on R-forge, not CRAN yet) that do just what you describe. The functions are HWidentify which only works on windows machines and HTKidentify which uses the tcltk package.
Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Doug > Sent: Thursday, December 10, 2009 1:49 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Labeling plot points > > > Hi, all. I've been searching for a while to find out how to create an > scatterplot which would let a user interact with it, specifically by > hovering the mouse over a point and having a pop-up appear with data > about > the point. The pop-up would disappear when the mouse moved away. I've > included a mock-up below. > > I've found out how to use identify() to make a label appear when > clicking a > point, but as far as I can tell that label text remains on the plot > once > inserted. If pop-ups aren't supported in R, is there a way to make a > text > label disappear when the mouse is clicked again? Are there other R > graphic > libraries I should use for this kind of feature? Any pointers or sample > code > would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Doug > > http://n4.nabble.com/file/n960517/Untitled.bmp > -- > View this message in context: http://n4.nabble.com/Labeling-plot- > points-tp960517p960517.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. ______________________________________________ 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.
