How to make geom_text plot within the canvas's bounds

Question

Using geom_text to label outlying points of scatter plot. By definition, these points tend to be close to the canvas edges: there is usually at least one word that overlaps

Answer 1

You can turn off clipping. For your example it works just great.

p <- ggplot(data=df, aes(x=n.wheels, y=utility, label=word))  + geom_text() 
gt <- ggplot_gtable(ggplot_build(p))
gt$layout$clip[gt$layout$name == "panel"] <- "off"
grid::grid.draw(gt)