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title: "ggplot2 extensions: ggrepel"

---

### ggrepel

<https://github.com/slowkow/ggrepel>

Repel overlapping text labels away from each other.

```{r, message=FALSE,warning=FALSE}

# Example from https://github.com/slowkow/ggrepel

library(ggplot2)

library(ggrepel)

## We can repel the text labels away from each other by loading ggrepel and using geom_text_repel instead:

set.seed(42)

dat <- mtcars[1:8,]

ggplot(dat) +

geom_point(aes(wt, mpg), color = 'red') +

geom_text_repel(aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(dat))) +

theme_classic(base_size = 16)

#geom_label_repel is based on geom_label.

set.seed(42)

ggplot(dat) +

geom_point(aes(wt, mpg)) +

geom_label_repel(

aes(wt, mpg, fill = factor(cyl), label = rownames(dat)),

fontface = 'bold', color = 'white',

box.padding = unit(0.25, "lines")

) +

theme_classic(base_size = 16)

```