GGplot add Data label to points

Question

How do I add data labels to points using ggplot?

I have a stacked data frame called "stacked":

 > head(stacked)
    time    value variable
 1  100 152.2211       gg
 2  110 146.3304       gg
 3  115 143.5831       gg
 4  120 140.9527       gg
 5  125 138.4297       gg
 6  130 136.0057       gg

 > tail(stacked)
      time    value variable
  755 1975 56.02922        t
  756 1980 56.14049        t
  757 1985 56.25148        t
  758 1990 56.36219        t
  759 1995 56.47262        t
  760 2000 56.58277        t

Now lets say I want to show data labels displaying the "value" field where the time field is equal to 100. Here is what I have:

g<- ggplot(stacked, aes( x = time,  y=value, colour=variable, group= variable) )       +   geom_line()  +
 geom_text(data = stacked[stacked$time == 100,], aes(label = stacked$value))
print(g)

I am getting the error:

Error: Aesthetics must either be length one, or the same length as the dataProblems:time, value, variable, variable

Any ideas?

Thank you.

sebkopf sebkopf · Accepted Answer · 2014-04-14T17:39:07

The problem is that in your aes(...) call for geom_text you are setting label = stacked$value. You've already specified the data subset (data = stacked[stacked$time == 100,]) so all you need to do here is set aes(label = value) so it takes the value column.

I don't have your test data but take a look at this example where I'm adding labels only to the data points at speeds that are a multiple of 10.

ggplot(cars, aes(x = speed, y = dist)) + 
    geom_point() + 
    geom_text(data = subset(cars, speed %% 5 == 0), aes(label = dist))

GGplot add Data label to points

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