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Repel overlapping text labels

Tzu-Chun — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 19:34:01 GMT

Sometimes, we have a gernal 2D plot with several overalpping labels as an example below:

Names Default To Here( 1 );
dt = Open( "$SAMPLE_DATA/Big Class.jmp" );
dt:Age << Label( 1 );
For Each Row( Row State()=Labeled State(1) );
Graph Builder(
    Size( 528, 454 ),
    Show Control Panel( 0 ),
    Variables( X( :weight ), Y( :height ) ),
    Elements( Points( X, Y, Legend( 18 ) ) )
);

If we want to keep all the labels in the plot, one possible way is drag the labels to the right place. However, it become more difficalt when the data points are large. is there any possible way we can do as the same in R to repel overlapping text labels using JSL instead of drag the label one by one?

Before After

Reference: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggrepel/vignettes/ggrepel.html

Re: Repel overlapping text labels

txnelson — Sun, 05 Nov 2017 16:17:13 GMT

I support your request and I have heard the request before. I am not aware of any way to do this currently in Graph Builder.

You should submit this enhancement request directly to

support@jmp.com

Re: Repel overlapping text labels

XanGregg — Thu, 09 Nov 2017 18:14:06 GMT

There is a graph preference called Hide Overlapping Labels, which will try to move labels so they don't overlap, and will hide any that still do overlap. It doesn't move them far enough to need a tagline though.

Re: Repel overlapping text labels

Tzu-Chun — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 00:56:25 GMT

Thanks Jim, I'll try to report to JMP support team to see if we can get this good feature in the future.

Re: Repel overlapping text labels

Tzu-Chun — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 01:02:32 GMT

Hi Xan,

Thanks for the great idea on this discussion, but we might lost a lot of labels when the data set goes large or distributed as different clusters. Hope JMP will consider this issue to be on the list.