[R] text() background

[Greg Snow]

Look at the shadowtext function in the TeachingDemos package and the boxed.labels function in the plotrix package.

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Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111


> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Aishe Brei
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2010 5:38 AM
> To: r-help at r-project.org
> Subject: [R] text() background
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> I'm trying
> to label different graphs within a plot. I used text() which worked ok,
> but is
> there a way to change the background within text() so that the part of
> the
> graph where the label is, is covert?
> 
> Thank you
> for your help,
> 
> Aishe B.
> 
> 
> 
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