This is a serious question. Please do not take it as a joke.
This is a scatter plot from an infamous paper with the same name, Get me off Your F****** Mailing List by Mazières and Kohle (2005), published in a predatory journal. Some people may know it.
I am seriously interested in recreating the same scatter plot to test a new density-based clustering algorithm without the need of creating all the letters from scratch.
Is there any way to make this process easier? (e.g. a dataset, or a package, or a smart way to recreate the plot)
Now that the grid package supports clipping paths, we can do:
library(grid)
library(ggplot2)
tg <- textGrob("Get me off\nYour Fuck\ning Mailing\nList", x = 0.2,
hjust = 0,
gp = gpar(cex = 6, col = "grey", font = 2))
cg <- pointsGrob(x= runif(15000), y = runif(15000), pch = 3,
gp = gpar(cex = 0.5))
rg <- rectGrob(width = unit(0.5, 'npc'), height = unit(0.1, 'npc'),
gp = gpar(fill = 'red'))
ggplot(data = NULL, aes(x = 100, y = 100)) +
geom_point(col = 'white') +
theme_classic() +
theme(panel.border = element_rect(fill = 'white', linewidth = 1))
pushViewport(viewport(clip = tg))
grid.draw(cg)