Changing background color for a text annotation to increase contrast and visibility

Question

I'd like to change the background color for my annotate text so that it's green and covers up anything behind it (like the horizontal line in the example below). How do I do that?

ggplot() + 
  geom_hline(yintercept=0) + 
  annotate("text",x=0,y=0,label="Here is a line")

Answer 1

Try geom_label instead:

ggplot() + 
  geom_hline(yintercept = 0) + 
  labs(x = "", y = "") +
  geom_label(aes(x = 0, y = 0, label = "Here is a line"), fill = "green")