Label points in geom point

Question

The data I m playing with comes from the internet source listed below  nba  lt - read csv  http   datasets flowingdata com ppg2008 csv   sep        What I want to do  is create a 2D points graph comparing two metrics from this table  with each player representing a dot on the graph  I have the following code    nbaplot  lt - ggplot nba  aes x  MIN  y  PTS  colour  green   label Name                        geom point      This gives me the following      What I want is a label of player s name right next to the dots  I thought the label function in ggplot s aesthetics would do this for me  but it didn t     I also tried text   function and the textxy   function from library calibrate   neither of which appears to work with ggplot    How can I add name labels to these points

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Instead of using the ifelse as in the above example  one can also prefilter the data prior to labeling based on some threshold values  this saves a lot of work for the plotting device   xlimit  lt - 36 ylimit  lt - 24 ggplot myData  geom point aes myX myY        geom label data myData myData myX  gt  xlimit  amp  myData myY gt  ylimit    aes myX myY myLabel

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The ggrepel package works great for repelling overlapping text labels away from each other  You can use either geom label repel    draws rectangles around the text  or geom text repel   functions  library ggplot2  library ggrepel   nba  lt - read csv  quot http   datasets flowingdata com ppg2008 csv quot   sep    quot   quot    nbaplot  lt - ggplot nba  aes x  MIN  y   PTS        geom point color    quot blue quot   size   3       geom label repel nbaplot      geom label repel aes label   Name                     box padding     0 35                     point padding   0 5                    segment color    grey50       theme classic         geom text repel   only label players with PTS  gt  25 or  lt  18   align text vertically with nudge y and allow the labels to    move horizontally with direction    quot x quot  ggplot nba  aes x  MIN  y   PTS  label   Name        geom point color   dplyr  case when nba PTS  gt  25    quot  1b9e77 quot                                          nba PTS  lt  18    quot  d95f02 quot                                         TRUE    quot  7570b3 quot                  size   3  alpha   0 8      geom text repel data            subset nba  PTS  gt  25                     nudge y         32 - subset nba  PTS  gt  25  PTS                    size            4                    box padding     1 5                    point padding   0 5                    force           100                    segment size    0 2                    segment color    quot grey50 quot                     direction        quot x quot       geom label repel data           subset nba  PTS  lt  18                     nudge y         16 - subset nba  PTS  lt  18  PTS                    size            4                    box padding     0 5                    point padding   0 5                    force           100                    segment size    0 2                    segment color    quot grey50 quot                     direction        quot x quot       scale x continuous expand   expand scale mult   c 0 2   2        scale y continuous expand   expand scale mult   c 0 1   1        theme classic base size   16    Edit  To use ggrepel with lines  see this and this  Created on 2019-05-01 by the reprex package  v0 2 0

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Use geom text   with aes label  You can play with hjust  vjust to adjust text position   ggplot nba  aes x  MIN  y  PTS  colour  green   label Name      geom point    geom text aes label Name  hjust 0  vjust 0      EDIT  Label only values above a certain threshold     ggplot nba  aes x  MIN  y  PTS  colour  green   label Name      geom point       geom text aes label ifelse PTS gt 24 as character Name       hjust 0 vjust 0

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