Using `ggplot2` for custom annotations leads to unexpected overlapping text labels in R
I'm trying to add custom annotations to my `ggplot2` scatter plot, but I keep encountering an issue where the text labels overlap each other, making the plot hard to read. I'm using `ggplot2` version 3.3.5 and have a dataset with x and y values along with a `label` column containing the text I want to display. Here's a simplified version of my code: ```R library(ggplot2) # Sample data set.seed(123) data <- data.frame(x = rnorm(10), y = rnorm(10), label = letters[1:10]) # Basic scatter plot with labels p <- ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_point() + geom_text(aes(label = label), vjust = -1, hjust = 0.5) print(p) ``` While the points are plotted correctly, the labels are overlapping significantly when the points are close to each other. I've tried using `position_nudge()` to offset the labels slightly, but the overlaps persist. Here's the adjusted code I attempted: ```R p <- ggplot(data, aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_point() + geom_text(aes(label = label), vjust = -1, hjust = 0.5, position = position_nudge(y = 0.1)) print(p) ``` This only moved the labels a tiny bit, and they still clash together. I've also thought about using `geom_label_repel()` from the `ggrepel` package, but I'm not sure how to implement that correctly. Any suggestions on how to make the annotations clearer or how to prevent them from overlapping would be greatly appreciated! Also, if there are any best practices for positioning labels in `ggplot2`, I'd love to hear about those as well.