Feature Request: Switch to allow text outside of plotting region

[thomasp85]

With the possibility of switching of clipping of layers it would be great to be able to loosen the constraint that text must be fully inside the plotting region

[slowkow]

Do you think the existing xlim and ylim options are sufficient?

I ought to add this example to the vignette.

Here's an example:

library(ggrepel)
library(gridExtra)
set.seed(42)

dat <- subset(mtcars, wt > 2.75 & wt < 3.45)
dat$car <- rownames(dat)

p <- ggplot(dat, aes(wt, mpg, label = car)) +
  geom_point(color = "red")

p1 <- p + geom_text() + labs(title = "geom_text()")

p2 <- p + geom_text_repel() + labs(title = "geom_text_repel()")

p3 <- p + geom_text_repel(xlim = c(-100, 100)) +
  labs(title = "geom_text_repel(xlim = c(-100, 100))")

gridExtra::grid.arrange(p1, p2, p3, ncol = 3)

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Bug with xlim = c(-Inf, Inf)?

I just now realized that xlim = c(-Inf, Inf) does not work as I would expect, whereas xlim = c(-100, 100) does. I think this is a bug.

# I would expect this to work the same as `xlim = c(-100, 100)`
p + geom_text_repel(xlim = c(-Inf, Inf)) +
  labs(title = "geom_text_repel(xlim = c(-Inf, Inf))")

[thomasp85]

That is indeed the functionality I'm after. Having it work with Inf would be nice, but for now I think it solves my need. Thanks

[slowkow]

Here's an example with clipping turned off.

library(ggrepel)
library(gridExtra)
set.seed(42)

dat <- subset(mtcars, wt > 2.75 & wt < 3.45)
dat$car <- rownames(dat)

p <- ggplot(dat, aes(wt, mpg, label = car)) +
  geom_point(color = "red")

p + geom_text_repel(xlim = c(-100, 100), ylim = c(-100, 100)) +
  labs(title = "geom_text_repel()") +
  coord_cartesian(clip = "off") +
  theme(plot.margin = margin(t = 2, r = 3, b = 2.5, l = 2, "cm"))
p