direct labels with {ggrepel}

ggrepel-directlabels.md

{directlabels} lets you attach categorical labels to many plots. for labeling values on plots, use ggrepel:

suppressPackageStartupMessages({
  library(ggplot2)
  library(ggrepel)
  library(dplyr)
})

extrema <- 
  economics %>%
  slice(which.max(date), which.min(date))

economics %>% 
ggplot(aes(date, psavert)) +
  geom_line() +
  geom_text_repel(
    data = extrema,
    aes(date, psavert, label = psavert),
    nudge_y = 1,
    min.segment.length = Inf
  )

^{Created on 2020-03-05 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}