Labelling points with ggplot2 and directlabels

Question

This is a follow-up to my earlier question. While the answer by krlmlr somehow helps to solve my problem, one issue remains - the labels are moved far away from the points s

Answer 1

Maybe hjust and vjust is what you are looking for?

ggplot(test, aes(x=x, y=y)) + 
  geom_point(aes(colour=group)) + 
  geom_text(aes(label=ID), show_guide=F, hjust = 1.2, vjust = 0.5)