drawText: Draw Text on the Page

In draw: Wrapper Functions for Producing Graphics

Description

Draws text on the page given positioning, dimensions and styling.

Usage

drawText(x, y, text = .pkgenv$text, just = .pkgenv$textJust,
  hjust = .pkgenv$textHjust, vjust = .pkgenv$textVjust,
  angle = .pkgenv$textAngle, overlap = .pkgenv$textOverlap,
  opacity = .pkgenv$textOpacity, color = .pkgenv$textColor,
  size = .pkgenv$textSize, face = .pkgenv$textFace,
  family = .pkgenv$textFamily, lineHeight = .pkgenv$textLineHeight,
  units = .pkgenv$units, ...)

Arguments

x	Numeric value for the x-axis position of the center.
y	Numeric value for the y-axis position of the center.
text	Character value of the text to display at xy position.
just	Character value of the text justification. One of "left", "right", "centre", "center", "bottom", or "top".
hjust	Numeric value of the horizontal justification.
vjust	Numeric value of the vertical justification.
angle	Numeric value of the angle to rotate text.
overlap	Logical value indicating if overlapping text should be removed (TRUE) or not (FALSE).
opacity	Numeric value of the transparency for text ranging from 0 (transparent) to 1 (non-transparent).
color	Character value of the color for text.
size	Numeric value of the text font size in pt.
face	Character value of the text font face. One of "plain", "bold", "italic", "oblique", and "bold.italic" (see fontface in gpar).
family	Character value of text font family to use (see family in par). Common values are "serif", "sans" and "mono".
lineHeight	Numeric value of text line height as a multiple of the size of the text.
units	Character value for the unit to use when specifying measurements.
...	Additional arguments passed to grid.text.

Value

A grid.text grob object.

See Also

drawSettings

Examples

library(draw)

# Set drawing settings
drawSettings(pageWidth = 5, pageHeight = 5, units = "inches")

# Create a new drawing page
drawPage()

# Draw text on top left corner
drawText(x = 1, y = 4, text = "Top Left")

# Draw bold text on top right corner
drawText(x = 4, y = 4, text = "Top Right", face = "bold")

# Draw serif text on bottom left corner
drawText(x = 1, y = 1, text = "Bottom Left", family = "serif")

# Draw larger text on bottom right corner
drawText(x = 4, y = 1, text = "Bottom Right", size = 14)

# Export the drawing page to a PDF
drawExport("drawText.pdf")

draw documentation built on May 2, 2019, 8:30 a.m.