Request something like "dodge" along path about geomtextpath HOT 3 CLOSED

Hi there,

Have you tried playing around with the hjust aesthetic? It control where along the line text is placed. See also this part of the vignette.

from geomtextpath.

You can set the hjust to any value between 0 and 1, or you can map it to an aesthetic (we have included scale_hjust_* functions for this very purpose, which by default dodge labels), or you can even set it to "auto"

library(tidyverse)
library(geomtextpath)

set.seed(2022)
tibble(x = seq(0, 1, 0.01),
       a_fairly_long_label = rnorm(x, mean = 0, sd = 1),
       b_fairly_long_label = rnorm(x, mean = 0.5, sd = 1)
) %>%
  pivot_longer(cols = c(a_fairly_long_label, b_fairly_long_label), 
               names_to = "group", values_to = "y") %>%
  ggplot(aes(x, y, linetype = group)) +
  #geom_smooth(se = FALSE) +
  geom_labelsmooth(aes(label = group), method = "loess", formula = y ~ x,
                   se = FALSE, hjust = "auto") +
  theme_minimal() +
  theme(legend.position = "none")

^{Created on 2022-02-23 by the reprex package (v2.0.1)}

from geomtextpath.

Wow, very good! Thanks for the explanation. For anyone who comes along after and is reading this:

• using hjust = 0.2 will put both labels in this case on the left side of the cross-over.
• using hjust = "auto" in this case puts them at opposite ends as shown above.

from geomtextpath.