[R] Testing for blank space in a plot

[Gabor Grothendieck]

See ?emptyspace in the plotrix package.

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 5:02 PM, John Fort <jfort at bio.fsu.edu> wrote:
>  I have written code which puts text to the upper right of points on a plot.
>  Some of my point are very close together and the new text is writing over
> the previous text.
>
>  Has anyone written a clever "smart-text" function that writes the text in a
> blank spot near the point (perhaps on the lower left or lower right side)
> when it discovers that the new space is not blank.
>
>  I could write such a function if there was an is.blank(x,y) command.  Does
> something like that exist?
>
>  Thanks.
>
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