...and the offset argument can't handle arrays either: text(c(0,0),c(0,0),c("a","b"),pos=c(1,2),offset=c(1,0.5),col="darkgreen") The second argument does not have any effect. Can I pass arrays to text and use diffent locations? Thomas PS: I use R version 2.5.0 (2007-04-23) under Win2000.