Show Only Text Labels in Scatterplot in R (2 Examples)
In this tutorial you’ll learn how to show only text labels in a scatterplot in the R programming language.
Creating Example Data
data(iris) # Example data head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa |
data(iris) # Example data head(iris) # Sepal.Length Sepal.Width Petal.Length Petal.Width Species # 1 5.1 3.5 1.4 0.2 setosa # 2 4.9 3.0 1.4 0.2 setosa # 3 4.7 3.2 1.3 0.2 setosa # 4 4.6 3.1 1.5 0.2 setosa # 5 5.0 3.6 1.4 0.2 setosa # 6 5.4 3.9 1.7 0.4 setosa
Example 1: Plot Only Text Labels in Base R Scatterplot
plot(x = iris$Sepal.Length, # Draw only labels y = iris$Sepal.Width, type = "n") text(x = iris$Sepal.Length, y = iris$Sepal.Width, labels = iris$Species) |
plot(x = iris$Sepal.Length, # Draw only labels y = iris$Sepal.Width, type = "n") text(x = iris$Sepal.Length, y = iris$Sepal.Width, labels = iris$Species)
Example 2: Plot Only Text Labels in ggplot2 Scatterplot
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install & load ggplot2 library("ggplot2") |
install.packages("ggplot2") # Install & load ggplot2 library("ggplot2")
ggplot(iris, # Draw only labels aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Sepal.Width, label = Species)) + geom_text() |
ggplot(iris, # Draw only labels aes(x = Sepal.Length, y = Sepal.Width, label = Species)) + geom_text()
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