nipnTK (version 0.2.0)

boxText: Plot text in a coloured bounding box.

Description

Plot text in a coloured bounding box.

Usage

boxText(
  x,
  y,
  labels,
  cex = 0.75,
  col = "white",
  border = FALSE,
  lwd = 0.5,
  pad = TRUE
)

Arguments

x, y

Co-ordinates of text that is to be plotted

labels

Text to be plotted

cex

Character expansion

col

Background colour

border

Border colour

lwd

Border width

pad

Add padding to (L) and (R) ends of bounding box

Examples

## Use of boxtext in the ageHeaping plot function
svy <- dp.ex02
ah12 <- ageHeaping(svy$age)

plot.new()
boxText(x = as.numeric(names(ah12$tab)),
        y = max(ah12$tab) * 0.1,
        labels = paste(sprintf(fmt = "%3.1f", ah12$pct), "%", sep = ""),
        cex = 0.5,
        pad = TRUE)