Hi I'm using a recent version of Enhancedvolcano and using data of 3 months ago where I got volcano plots with labels next to the points, today I get labels that are right on top of the points. Is there a way to nudge these left or right top or bottom? here's my code

plot1 <- EnhancedVolcano(mydata, 
                         lab = as.character(mydata$gene),
                         x = "log2_fold_change",
                         y = "adj_p",
                         title = "Edu+ vs EdU- Microglia",
                         xlim = c(-8,10),
                         ylim = c(0,8),
                         selectLab = c(),
                         pCutoff = 0.05,
                         FCcutoff = 0.5849,
                         labSize = 5.0,
                         pointSize = 3,
                         col=c('grey10', 'royalblue4', 'purple4', 'red3'),
                         colAlpha = 0.3,
                         cutoffLineType = 'dashed',
                         cutoffLineCol = 'black',
                         cutoffLineWidth = 0.4,
                         legendLabels=c('Not sig.','Log2 FC','p-value',
                                        'p-value & Log2FC'),
                         legendPosition = 'right',
                         legendLabSize = 10,
                         legendIconSize = 3.0,
                         gridlines.major = FALSE,
                         gridlines.minor = FALSE,
                         #drawConnectors = TRUE,
                         #widthConnectors = 0.75
)


plot1

Hi,

That is due to a change in a package on which EnhancedVolcano is dependent, namely ggrepel. Such a change in a package that is not maintained by me is almost entirely out of my control.

What I would suggest is to simply activate drawConnectors and then avail of other functionality to control, e.g., the length and thickness of connectors, and the amount of overlaps that are permitted (via max.overlaps)

Kevin