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Add Text to a Plot

Usage

text(x, y = NULL, labels = seq(along = x), ...)

Arguments

x, y numeric vectors of coordinates where the text labels should be written.
labels character or expression with the text to be written.
... further graphical parameters (from par), such as adj, cex, etc.

Description

text draws the strings given in the vector labels at the coordinates given by x and y. y may be missing since xy.coords(x,y) is used for construction of the coordinates.

labels must be of type character or expression. In the latter case, quite a bit of mathematical notation is available such as sub- and superscripts, greek letters, fractions, etc.

See Also

mtext, title.

Examples

plot(-1:1,-1:1, type = "n", xlab = "Re", ylab = "Im")
K <- 16; text(exp(1i * 2 * pi * (1:K) / K), col = 2)

plot(1:10, 1:10, main = "text(..) examples")
points(c(6,2), c(2,1), pch = 3, cex = 4, col = "red")	 
text(6, 2, "the text is CENTERED around (x,y) = (6,2) by default",
     cex = .8)
text(2, 1, "or Left/Bottom - JUSTIFIED at (2,1) by `adj = c(0,0)'",
     adj = c(0,0))
text(4, 9, expression(hat(beta) == (X^t * X)^{-1} * X^t * y))
text(4, 8.4, "expression(hat(beta) == (X^t * X)^{-1} * X^t * y)", cex = .6)
text(4, 7, expression(bar(x) == sum(frac(x[i], n), i==1, n)))
text(4, 6.4, "expression(bar(x) == sum(frac(x[i], n), i==1, n))", cex = .6)
text(8, 5, expression(paste(frac(1, sigma*sqrt(2*pi)), " ",
                            plain(e)^{frac(-(x-mu)^2, 2*sigma^2)})))