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\name{text}
\title{Add Text to a Plot}
\encoding{latin1}
\usage{
text(x, \dots)

\method{text}{default} (x, y = NULL, labels = seq_along(x), adj = NULL,
     pos = NULL, offset = 0.5, vfont = NULL,
     cex = 1, col = NULL, font = NULL, \dots)
}
\alias{text}
\alias{text.default}
\arguments{
  \item{x, y}{numeric vectors of coordinates where the text
    \code{labels} should be written.  If the length of \code{x} and
    \code{y} differs, the shorter one is recycled.}
  \item{labels}{a character vector or \link{expression} specifying
    the \emph{text} to be written.  An attempt is made to coerce other
    language objects (names and calls) to expressions, and vectors and
    other classed objects to character vectors by \code{\link{as.character}}.
    If \code{labels} is longer than \code{x} and
    \code{y}, the coordinates are recycled to the length of \code{labels}.}
  \item{adj}{one or two values in \eqn{[0,1]} which specify the x
    (and optionally y) adjustment of the labels.  On most devices values
    outside that interval will also work.}
  \item{pos}{a position specifier for the text.  If specified this
    overrides any \code{adj} value given.  Values of \code{1},
    \code{2}, \code{3} and \code{4}, respectively indicate
    positions below, to the left of, above and to the right of
    the specified coordinates.}
  \item{offset}{when \code{pos} is specified, this value gives the
    offset of the label from the specified coordinate in fractions
    of a character width.}
  \item{vfont}{if a character vector of length 2 is specified, then Hershey
    vector fonts are used.  The first element of the vector
    selects a typeface and the second element selects a style.}
  \item{cex}{numeric \bold{c}haracter \bold{ex}pansion factor; multiplied
    by \code{\link{par}("cex")} yields the final character size.
    \code{NULL} and \code{NA} are equivalent to \code{1.0}.}
  \item{col, font}{the color and font to be used, possibly vectors.
    These default to the values of the global graphical parameters in
    \code{\link{par}()}.}
  \item{\dots}{further graphical parameters (from \code{\link{par}}),
    such as \code{family} and \code{xpd}.}
}
\description{
  \code{text} draws the strings given in the vector \code{labels} at the
  coordinates given by \code{x} and \code{y}.
  \code{y} may be missing since \code{\link{xy.coords}(x,y)} is used for
  construction of the coordinates.
}
\details{
  \code{labels} must be of type \code{\link{character}} or
  \code{\link{expression}} (or be coercible to such a type).
  In the latter case, quite a bit of
  mathematical notation is available such as sub- and superscripts,
  greek letters, fractions, etc.

  \code{adj} allows \emph{adj}ustment of the text with respect to \code{(x,y)}.
  Values of 0, 0.5, and 1 specify left/bottom, middle and
  right/top, respectively.  The default is for centered text, i.e.,
  \code{adj = c(0.5, 0.5)}. Accurate vertical centering needs
  character metric information on individual characters, which is
  only available on some devices.

  The \code{pos} and \code{offset} arguments can be used in conjunction
  with values returned by \code{identify} to recreate an interactively
  labelled plot.

  Text can be rotated by using graphical parameters \code{srt} (see
  \code{\link{par}}); this rotates about the centre set by \code{adj}.

  Graphical parameters \code{col}, \code{cex} and \code{font} can be
  vectors and will then be applied cyclically to the \code{labels} (and
  extra values will be ignored).  \code{NA} values of \code{font} are
  replaced by \code{par("font")}.

  Labels whose \code{x}, \code{y}, \code{labels}, \code{cex} or \code{col}
  value is \code{NA} are omitted from the plot.
}
\section{Euro symbol}{
  The Euro symbol was introduced relatively recently, and may not be
  available in older fonts.  In recent versions of Adobe symbol fonts it
  is character 160, so \code{text(x, y, "\xA0", font = 5)} will work.
  People using Western European locales on Unix-alikes can probably
  select ISO-8895-15 (Latin-9) which has the Euro as character 165: this
  can also be used for \code{\link{postscript}} and \code{\link{pdf}}.
#ifdef unix

  The Euro should be rendered correctly by \code{\link{X11}} in UTF-8
  locales, but the corresponding single-byte encoding in
  \code{\link{postscript}} and \code{\link{pdf}} will be to be selected
  as \code{ISOLatin9.enc}.
#endif
#ifdef windows

  In all the European Windows encoding the Euro is symbol 128, although
  not all fonts support it.  It is not in the symbol font used for
  \code{\link{windows}} and related devices, including the Windows printer.
#endif
}
\references{
  Becker, R. A., Chambers, J. M. and Wilks, A. R. (1988)
  \emph{The New S Language}.
  Wadsworth \& Brooks/Cole.

  Murrell, P. (2005) \emph{R Graphics}. Chapman & Hall/CRC Press.
}
\seealso{
  \code{\link{mtext}}, \code{\link{title}},
  \code{\link{Hershey}} for details on Hershey vector fonts,
  \code{\link{plotmath}} for details and more examples on
  mathematical annotation.
}
\examples{
plot(-1:1,-1:1, type = "n", xlab = "Re", ylab = "Im")
K <- 16; text(exp(1i * 2 * pi * (1:K) / K), col = 2)

## The following two examples use latin1 characters: these may not
## appear correctly (or be omitted entirely).
plot(1:10, 1:10, main = "text(...) examples\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~",
     sub = "R is GNU ©, but not ® ...")
mtext("«Latin-1 accented chars»: éè øØ å<Å æ<Æ", side=3)
points(c(6,2), c(2,1), pch = 3, cex = 4, col = "red")
text(6, 2, "the text is CENTERED around (x,y) = (6,2) by default",
     cex = .8)
text(2, 1, "or Left/Bottom - JUSTIFIED at (2,1) by 'adj = c(0,0)'",
     adj = c(0,0))
text(4, 9, expression(hat(beta) == (X^t * X)^{-1} * X^t * y))
text(4, 8.4, "expression(hat(beta) == (X^t * X)^{-1} * X^t * y)", cex = .75)
text(4, 7, expression(bar(x) == sum(frac(x[i], n), i==1, n)))

## Two more latin1 examples
text(5,10.2,
     "Le français, c'est façile: Règles, Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité...")
text(5,9.8, "Jetz no chli züritüütsch: (noch ein bißchen Zürcher deutsch)")
}
\keyword{aplot}