R - Plot Only Text

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予麋鹿 2021-02-05 04:45

Curious how one might create a plot with only text information. This will essentially be a \"print\" for the plot window.

The best option I\'ve found so far is the foll

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  • 2021-02-05 04:53

    You can do this using base graphics. First you'll want to take away all of the margins from the plot window:

    par(mar = c(0,0,0,0))
    

    And then you'll plot an empty plot:

    plot(c(0, 1), c(0, 1), ann = F, bty = 'n', type = 'n', xaxt = 'n', yaxt = 'n')
    

    Here's a guide to what's going on here (use ?plot.default and ?par for more details):

    • ann - Display Annotoations (set to FALSE)
    • bty - Border Type (none)
    • type - Plot Type (one that produces no points or lines)
    • xaxt - x axis type (none)
    • yaxt - y axis type (none)

    Now to plot the text. I took out the extra spaces because they didn't seem to be necessary.

    text(x = 0.5, y = 0.5, paste("The following is text that'll appear in a plot window.\n",
                                 "As you can see, it's in the plot window\n",
                                 "One might imagine useful informaiton here"), 
         cex = 1.6, col = "black")
    

    enter image description here

    Now to restore the default settings

    par(mar = c(5, 4, 4, 2) + 0.1)
    

    I hope that helps!

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  • 2021-02-05 05:04

    You could use annotate in ggplot2 like

    library(ggplot2)
    text = paste("\n   The following is text that'll appear in a plot window.\n",
             "       As you can see, it's in the plot window\n",
             "       One might imagine useful information here")
    ggplot() + 
      annotate("text", x = 4, y = 25, size=8, label = text) + 
      theme_void()
    

    And you can of course remove the plot margins, axes, etc. to have just the text

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  • 2021-02-05 05:07

    Read up on ?par . There is limited capability to select the font type via the family and font arguments.

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  • 2021-02-05 05:10

    Here's a handy example to play with too:

    par(mar = c(0,0,0,0))
    plot(c(0, 1), c(0, 1), ann = F, bty = 'n', type = 'n', xaxt = 'n', yaxt = 'n')
    
    text(x = 0.34, y = 0.9, paste("This is a plot without a plot."), 
         cex = 1.5, col = "black", family="serif", font=2, adj=0.5)
    
    text(x = 0.34, y = 0.6, paste("    Perhpas you'll:"), 
         cex = 1.2, col = "gray30", family="sans", font=1, adj=1)
    text(x = 0.35, y = 0.6, paste("Find it helpful"), 
         cex = 1.2, col = "black", family="mono", font=3, adj=0)
    

    enter image description here

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