This function adds geoms to a plot. Unlike typical a geom function,
the properties of the geoms are not mapped from variables of a data frame,
but are instead passed in as vectors. This is useful for adding small annotations
(such as text labels) or if you have your data in vectors, and for some
reason don't want to put them in a data frame.
positioning aesthetics -
you must specify at least one of these.
...
other arguments passed on to layer. These are
often aesthetics, used to set an aesthetic to a fixed value, like
color = "red" or size = 3. They may also be parameters
to the paired geom/stat.
na.rm
If FALSE (the default), removes missing values with
a warning. If TRUE silently removes missing values.
Details
Note that all position aesthetics are scaled (i.e. they will expand the
limits of the plot so they are visible), but all other aesthetics are
set. This means that layers created with this function will never
affect the legend.
Examples
p <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = wt, y = mpg)) + geom_point()
p + annotate("text", x = 4, y = 25, label = "Some text")
p + annotate("text", x = 2:5, y = 25, label = "Some text")
p + annotate("rect", xmin = 3, xmax = 4.2, ymin = 12, ymax = 21,
alpha = .2)
p + annotate("segment", x = 2.5, xend = 4, y = 15, yend = 25,
colour = "blue")
p + annotate("pointrange", x = 3.5, y = 20, ymin = 12, ymax = 28,
colour = "red", size = 1.5)
p + annotate("text", x = 2:3, y = 20:21, label = c("my label", "label 2"))