ggrepel provides geoms for ggplot2 to repel overlapping text labels:

• geom_text_repel()
• geom_label_repel()

Text labels repel away from each other, away from data points, and away from edges of the plotting area.

library(ggrepel)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg, label = rownames(mtcars))) +
  geom_text_repel() +
  geom_point(color = 'red') +
  theme_classic(base_size = 16)

# The easiest way to get ggrepel is to install it from CRAN:
install.packages("ggrepel")

# Or get the the development version from GitHub:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("slowkow/ggrepel")

See the examples page to learn more about how to use ggrepel in your project.

Please submit an issue to report bugs or ask questions.

Please contribute bug fixes or new features with a pull request to this repository.