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ds %>%
filter(location %in% c("Canberra", "Sydney", "Darwin")) %>%
ggplot(aes(x=max_temp, colour=location, label=location)) +
geom_textdensity(size=5, fontface=2) +
labs(x="Maximum Temperature", y="Density") +
theme(legend.position="none")Allan Cameron’s geomtextpath (Cameron and van den Brand 2025) package (https://github.com/AllanCameron/geomtextpath) supports many different and flexible text layout effects. To install the package:
The geomtextpath::geom_textdensity() command produces a density plot
with the text labels embedded along the lines.of the plot. It is
particularly useful with the colour= aesthetic, and using the same
variable for the label=.
References
Cameron, Allan, and Teun van den Brand. 2025. Geomtextpath: Curved Text in Ggplot2. https://allancameron.github.io/geomtextpath/.
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