# Adding labels within lattice panels by group

The other day I had data that showed the development of many products over time. I grouped the products into categories and visualised the data as line graphs in lattice. But instead of adding an extensive legend to the plot I wanted to add labels to each line's latest point. How do you do that? It turns out that panel.groups is there to help again.

Here is my solution:

### Session Info

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8/C/en_GB.UTF-8/en_GB.UTF-8

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

other attached packages:
[1] lattice_0.20-24

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] grid_3.0.2

#### 3 comments :

1. Cool. But you should correct a typo. The last line (panel.text) should use "dat$product", not "dat$category".

2. Oops. Thanks for pointing this out. Fixed now.

3. Thanks for your post.
Package "directlabels" provides additional ways to label your series in lattice plots.

http://directlabels.r-forge.r-project.org/
http://directlabels.r-forge.r-project.org/docs/index.html

Thanks,
Carlos Ortega.