Sometimes it is preferable to label data series instead of using a legend. This post demonstrates one way of using labels instead of legend in a ggplot2 plot. > library(ggplot2) > p <- ggplot(dfm, aes(month, value, group = City, colour = City)) + geom_line(size = 1) + opts(legend.position = "none") > p + geom_text(data = dfm[dfm$month == "Dec", ], aes(label = City), hjust = 0.7, vjust = 1) The add