How to nicely annotate a ggplot2 (manual)

Question

Using ggplot2 I normally use geom_text and something like position=jitter to annotate my plots.

However - for a nice plot I of

Answer 1

If you use geom_text() instead of annotate() you can pass a group color to your plot:

ggplot(data2, aes(x=time, y=value, group=type, col=type))+
geom_line()+
geom_point()+
theme_bw() +
geom_text(aes(7, .9, label="correct color", color="NA*")) +
geom_text(aes(15, .6, label="another correct color!", color="MVH")) 

So using annotate() it looks like this: alt text http://www.cerebralmastication.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/before.png

then after using geom_text() it looks like this: alt text http://www.cerebralmastication.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/after.png