ggrepel Example

ggrepel - sensible label placement!

Data from:

• Wikipedia State Income Data

• Wikipedia Life Expectancy Data

library(ggplot2)
library(ggrepel)

IncomeData = read.csv('Datasets/StateIncomeData.csv')
IncomeData = IncomeData[order(IncomeData$State),]

LifespanData = read.csv('Datasets/StateLifeExpectancy.csv')
LifespanData = LifespanData[order(LifespanData$State),]

PlotData = data.frame('State' = IncomeData$State, 'Income' = IncomeData$Median.household.income, 'Lifespan' = LifespanData$Life.Expectancy)

ShortPlotData = PlotData[1:30,]

ggplot(ShortPlotData) +
  geom_point(aes(Income,Lifespan), size = 4, color = 'steelblue') +
  geom_label_repel(aes(Income,Lifespan, label = State))