You can use the following basic syntax to add a label to a horizontal line in ggplot2:

+ annotate("text", x=9, y=20, label="Here is my text")

The following examples show how to use this syntax in practice.

Example 1: Add Label to geom_hline

The following code shows how to add a label to a horizontal line in ggplot2:

library(ggplot2)

#create data frame 
df <- data.frame(x=c(1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15),
                 y=c(13, 14, 14, 12, 17, 21, 22, 28, 30, 31))

#create scatterplot with horizontal line at y=20ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_hline(yintercept=20) +
  annotate("text", x=9, y=20.5, label="Some text")

Example 2: Add Customized Label to geom_hline

The following code shows how to use the size and color arguments to add a label with a custom size and color to a horizontal line in ggplot2:

library(ggplot2)

#create data frame 
df <- data.frame(x=c(1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15),
                 y=c(13, 14, 14, 12, 17, 21, 22, 28, 30, 31))

#create scatterplot with horizontal line at y=20ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_hline(yintercept=20) +
  annotate("text", x=10, y=21.5, label="Some text", size=15, color="blue")

Example 3: Add Multiple Labels to geom_hline

The following code shows how to use the annotate() function multiple times to add multiple labels to a horizontal line in ggplot2:

library(ggplot2)

#create data frame 
df <- data.frame(x=c(1, 3, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 9, 12, 15),
                 y=c(13, 14, 14, 12, 17, 21, 22, 28, 30, 31))

#create scatterplot with horizontal line at y=10ggplot(df, aes(x=x, y=y)) +
  geom_point() +
  geom_hline(yintercept=20) +
  annotate("text", x=10, y=19, label="Some text", size=15, color="blue") +
  annotate("text", x=10, y=21, label="More text", size=9, color="red")

Feel free to use the annotate() function as many times as you’d like to add as many labels as you’d like to the plot.