I have the following data (temp.dat
see end note for full data)
Year State Capex
1 2003 VIC 5.356415
2 2004 VIC 5.765232
3 2005 VIC 5.247276
4 2006 VIC 5.579882
5 2007 VIC 5.142464
...
and I can produce the following chart:
ggplot(temp.dat) +
geom_line(aes(x = Year, y = Capex, group = State, colour = State))
Instead of the legend, I'd like the labels to be
I've noticed baptiste's comments in the answer in the following link, but when I try to adapt his code (geom_text(aes(label = State, colour = State, x = Inf, y = Capex), hjust = -1)
) the text does not appear.
ggplot2 - annotate outside of plot
temp.dat <- structure(list(Year = c("2003", "2004", "2005", "2006", "2007",
"2008", "2009", "2010", "2011", "2012", "2013", "2014", "2003",
"2004", "2005", "2006", "2007", "2008", "2009", "2010", "2011",
"2012", "2013", "2014", "2003", "2004", "2005", "2006", "2007",
"2008", "2009", "2010", "2011", "2012", "2013", "2014", "2003",
"2004", "2005", "2006", "2007", "2008", "2009", "2010", "2011",
"2012", "2013", "2014"), State = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,
1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 2L,
2L, 2L, 2L, 2L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L, 3L,
4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L, 4L), .Label = c("VIC",
"NSW", "QLD", "WA"), class = "factor"), Capex = c(5.35641472365348,
5.76523240652641, 5.24727577535625, 5.57988239709746, 5.14246402568366,
4.96786288162828, 5.493190785287, 6.08500616799372, 6.5092228474591,
7.03813541623157, 8.34736513875897, 9.04992300432169, 7.15830329914056,
7.21247045701994, 7.81373928617117, 7.76610217197542, 7.9744994967006,
7.93734452080786, 8.29289899132255, 7.85222269563982, 8.12683746325074,
8.61903784301649, 9.7904327253813, 9.75021175267288, 8.2950673974226,
6.6272705639724, 6.50170524635367, 6.15609626379471, 6.43799637295979,
6.9869551384028, 8.36305663640294, 8.31382617231745, 8.65409824343971,
9.70529678167458, 11.3102788081848, 11.8696420977237, 6.77937303542605,
5.51242844820827, 5.35789621712839, 4.38699327451101, 4.4925792218211,
4.29934654081527, 4.54639175257732, 4.70040615159951, 5.04056109514957,
5.49921208937735, 5.96590909090909, 6.18700407463007)), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-48L), .Names = c("Year", "State", "Capex"))
To use Baptiste's idea, you need to turn off clipping. But when you do, you get garbage. In addition, you need to suppress the legend, and, for geom_text
, select Capex for 2014, and increase the margin to give room for the labels. (Or you can adjust the hjust
parameter to move the labels inside the plot panel.) Something like this:
library(ggplot2)
library(grid)
p = ggplot(temp.dat) +
geom_line(aes(x = Year, y = Capex, group = State, colour = State)) +
geom_text(data = subset(temp.dat, Year == "2014"), aes(label = State, colour = State, x = Inf, y = Capex), hjust = -.1) +
scale_colour_discrete(guide = 'none') +
theme(plot.margin = unit(c(1,3,1,1), "lines"))
# Code to turn off clipping
gt <- ggplotGrob(p)
gt$layout$clip[gt$layout$name == "panel"] <- "off"
grid.draw(gt)
But, this is the sort of plot that is perfect for directlabels
.
library(ggplot2)
library(directlabels)
ggplot(temp.dat, aes(x = Year, y = Capex, group = State, colour = State)) +
geom_line() +
scale_colour_discrete(guide = 'none') +
scale_x_discrete(expand=c(0, 1)) +
geom_dl(aes(label = State), method = list(dl.combine("first.points", "last.points")), cex = 0.8)
Edit To increase the space between the end point and the labels:
ggplot(temp.dat, aes(x = Year, y = Capex, group = State, colour = State)) +
geom_line() +
scale_colour_discrete(guide = 'none') +
scale_x_discrete(expand=c(0, 1)) +
geom_dl(aes(label = State), method = list(dl.trans(x = x + 0.2), "last.points", cex = 0.8)) +
geom_dl(aes(label = State), method = list(dl.trans(x = x - 0.2), "first.points", cex = 0.8))