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Align text inside a plot

Asked 2010-08-10T21:43:55.853
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I am an R newbie and had a question. I am trying to place some text into an R plot. Here's some code using the brightness dataset in the UsingR package.

    library(UsingR)
    brightness

    MyMean <- mean(brightness)
    MyMedian <- median(brightness)
    MySd <- sd(brightness)

    hist(brightness, breaks=35, main="This is a Histogram", 
         xlab="Brightness", ylab="Frequency", xlim=c(0,15), ylim=c(0, 200))

    text(3.5, 150, paste("Mean =", round(MyMean, 1), "\n Median =", 
         round(MyMedian, 1), "\n Std.Dev =", round(MySd, 1)))

This code produces:

enter image description here

The issue with this output is that the text is not left left alligned. Does anyone know how to make the text left alligned.

Thanks.

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Try using legend() instead of text()

legend(3.5, 150, legend = c(paste("Mean =", round(MyMean, 1)),
                            paste("Median =",round(MyMedian, 1)),
                            paste("Std.Dev =", round(MySd, 1))), 
                  bty = "n")

You'll have to play around with the position adjustment. You might consider not using xy coordinates at all, but replacing those two arguments with "topleft"

answered 2010-08-11T00:22:19.860

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