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Is there a way to specify that a custom_annotation only applies to one facet of a ggplot?

For example, if I run the following code

library(tidyverse)
library(grid)

text_grob=grobTree(textGrob("text",x=0.5, y=0.6, rot=90,
    gp=gpar(col="red")))

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=mpg, y =drat))+
  geom_point() +
  facet_wrap(~cyl) +
  annotation_custom(overrep_grob)

I get this

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How can I only keep the rightmost red "text" annotation and not add the "text" annotation to the first two facets? Note I can't use geom_text or annotate because I need to make use of textGrob's relative text positioning

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  • mtcars is a built in dataset. So the code above is already a reprex. Just run it in your R terminal and you will get the plot. You might have to install tidyverse and grid if you don't have them though Commented Aug 15, 2018 at 20:28
  • sorry, did not catch that. Commented Aug 15, 2018 at 20:30
  • See here for a modified version of annotation_custom that allows the panel to be specified Commented Aug 15, 2018 at 22:18
  • Thats a very elegant solution! Thanks Commented Aug 16, 2018 at 15:55

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You could also do this using geom_text by calculating the relative position of the text needed. Note that here, the relative position is slightly different than the one you use above because here I define the relative position as some proportion of the dynamic range. You can choose a different value for rel to get the position you need. I find that this way makes the positioning less arbitrary. 

library(tidyverse)

rel_pos <- function(.data, var, rel){
  var <- enquo(var)
  .data %>% 
    summarise(x = sum(max(!!var), min(!!var))* rel) %>% .[1, "x"]
}

my_text <- data_frame(mpg = rel_pos(mtcars, mpg, 0.5), 
                      drat = rel_pos(mtcars, drat, 0.6) , 
                      cyl = 8, lab = "text")

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=mpg, y =drat))+
  geom_point() +
  facet_wrap(~cyl)+
  geom_text(data = my_text, aes(label = lab), color = "red", angle = 90)

Created on 2018-08-15 by the reprex package (v0.2.0).

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egg has geom_custom,

library(ggplot2)
library(grid)
library(egg)

d = data.frame(cyl=6, drat = 4, mpg = 15)
d$grob <- list(textGrob("text",rot=90, hjust = 0, gp=gpar(col="red")))

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x=mpg, y=drat))+
  geom_point() +
  facet_wrap(~cyl) +
  geom_custom(data = d, aes(data = grob), grob_fun = identity)
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Thanks! Can we specify any value we want for drat and mpg inside textGrob since it's just a placeholder?

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