Overview

ggrepel provides geoms for ggplot2 to repel overlapping text labels:

• geom_text_repel()
• geom_label_repel()

Text labels repel away from each other, away from data points, and away from edges of the plotting area.

library(ggrepel)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars))) +
  geom_text_repel() +
  geom_point(color = 'red') +
  theme_classic(base_size = 16)

Installation

# The easiest way to get ggrepel is to install it from CRAN:
install.packages("ggrepel")

# Or get the latest development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("slowkow/ggrepel")

Getting help

Check out the examples to learn how to use ggrepel in your project.

See our collection of related work for similar R packages, Python packages, and more.

If you have an issue with ggrepel or ggplot2, someone might already have experienced it. Try searching the web, or create a new post:

1. The RStudio community is an active forum with RStudio and R users.

2. Stack Overflow has lots of questions and answers about ggplot2 and ggrepel.

Examples

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Thanks

Thanks to everyone who has contributed pull requests, opened issues, asked questions, and shared examples!

And thanks to Allison Horst for the beautiful artwork!