How can I label points in this scatterplot

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Can you help me on putting labels on the following graph     The code i use is     valbanks lt -scan  banks txt   what list 0 0      sep     skip 1  comment char      valbanks  valj2007 lt -valbanks  1   valj2009 lt -valbanks  2   namebank lt -valbanks  3    percent losses lt - valj2009-valj2007  valj2007 percent losses  abs losses lt - valj2007-valj2009  abs losses  plot abs losses  percent losses main  Absolute Losses vs  Relative Losses in    xlab  Losses  absolute  in miles of millions   ylab  Losses relative  in   of January  2007 value  col  blue   pch   19  cex   1  lty    solid   lwd   2 text percet losses  abs losses namebank    text percet losses  abs losses labels namebank  cex  0 7  offset   10    and the data is   Value Jan 2007  Value Jan 2009  Bank      49  16  Morgan Stanley 120 4 6 RBS 76  10 3    Deutsche Bank 67  17  Credit Agricole 80  26  Societ   Generale 91  7 4 Barclays 108 32 5    BNP-Paribas 93  26  Unicredit 116 35  UBS 75 27   Credit Suise 100 35  Goldman Sachs 116 64  Santander 255 19  Citigroup 165 85  JP Morgan 215 97  HSBC   Thank you very much  What is the option to put the label at the bottom  right  up  left        Summarizing  I want a graph similar that the one that is in the second message from this post but there is no the code there   What code i have to put     if i put text percet losses  abs losses namebank   i obtain nothing  the graph continue without changes   Could you show me the code i need to put   Thanks

User · Accepted Answer

Your call to text   doesn t output anything because you inverted your x and your y   plot abs losses  percent losses        main   Absolute Losses vs  Relative Losses in          xlab   Losses  absolute  in miles of millions         ylab   Losses relative  in   of January  2007 value         col   blue   pch   19  cex   1  lty    solid   lwd   2   text abs losses  percent losses  labels namebank  cex  0 7    Now if you want to move your labels down  left  up or right you can add argument pos  with values  respectively  1  2  3 or 4  For instance  to place your labels up    text abs losses  percent losses  labels namebank  cex  0 7  pos 3      You can of course gives a vector of value to pos if you want some of the labels in other directions  for instance for Goldman Sachs  UBS and Soci  t   Generale since they are overlapping with other labels     pos vector  lt - rep 3  length namebank    pos vector namebank  in  c  Goldman Sachs    Societ   Generale    UBS     lt - 4  text abs losses  percent losses  labels namebank  cex  0 7  pos pos vector

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You should use labels attribute inside plot function and the value of this attribute should be the vector containing the values that you want for each point to have

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For just plotting a vector  you should use the following command   text your vector  labels your labels  cex  labels size  pos labels position

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I have tried directlabels package for putting text labels  In the case of scatter plots it s not still perfect  but much better than manually adjusting the positions  specially in the cases that you are preparing the draft plots and not the final one - so you need to change and make plot again and again -

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