title <- rep("A Really Rather Long Text Label", 25)
value <- runif(25, 1,10)
spacing <- seq(1:25)
df <- data.frame(title, value, spacing, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)

myplot <- ggplot(data=df, aes(x=spacing, y=value, label = title)) +
    geom_text(aes(colour = value),
        size = 2.5, fontface = "bold",
        vjust = 0,
        position = position_jitter(width=5, height=0)) +
    theme_bw() +
    scale_x_continuous(limits = c(-5, 30))+
    scale_colour_gradient(low = "#6BAED6", high = "#08306B") +
    opts(axis.title.x = theme_blank(),
        axis.ticks = theme_blank(),
        axis.text.x = theme_blank(),
        legend.position = "none")
myplot

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library("ggplot2")

tmp <- data.frame(x=-5:5, y=rnorm(11), lab=LETTERS[1:11])

p <- ggplot(aes(x=x, y=y, label=lab), data=tmp)+

     geom_point()+

     geom_text(data=subset(tmp, x >0), hjust=-0.5)+

     geom_text(data=subset(tmp, x <=0), hjust=1.5)
print(p)

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dat <- read.table(text="

cars    trucks  suvs

1   2   4

3   5   4

6   4   6

4   5   6

9   12  16", header=TRUE,as.is=TRUE)

dat$day <- factor(c("Mo","Tu","We","Th","Fr"),

             levels=c("Mo","Tu","We","Th","Fr"))

library(reshape2)

library(ggplot2)

mdat <- melt(dat, id.vars="day")

head(mdat)

ggplot(mdat, aes(variable, value, fill=day))+

  geom_bar(stat="identity", position="dodge")

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http://sape.inf.usi.ch/quick-reference/ggplot2/colour
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http://docs.ggplot2.org/current/