> Or just add the text layer separately: > > qplot(year, value, data = data, geom = "line", group = countries) + > geom_text(aes(label = countries), subset = .(year == 1990), > hjust = 1, size = 3, lineheight = 1) THX a lot! The subset did not work for me, but this does: subset(data,year == 1990) Andreas