How to add text to a figure using the R ggplot2 package with geom_text (CC149)

Adding text labels to your figure to tell your audience what group each point or line comes from. Thankfully, it's relatively easy to pull this off in R using ggplot2's geom_text function. We'll replace our legend with text annotations and talk about how we can make the labels easier to see. Along the way, we'll also learn about the modulus operator (%%) and get to see if_else and case_when in action. The data depict the percentage of people in 15 countries who would be willing to receive the COVID-19 vaccine as of August and October of 2020.

Pat uses the #geom_text function function from #ggplot2 and a variety of functions from the #dplyr, showtext, and ggtext packages in #RStudio. The accompanying blog post can be found at https://www.riffomonas.org/code_club/....

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0:00 Replacing legends with text labels
1:44 Review of manipulating appearance of text
6:34 Placing text annotation within figure
8:16 Pruning the number of country names
13:07 Justification of text annotations
14:48 Adjusting position of text annotations
17:09 Critique of figure