Is there a library for labeling scatter plot while avoiding label overlaps?

I would like to plot many data points in a scatter plot and some data points are located very close together. Is there a library for smart label placement so that the label overlap will be minimized?

I found a package for R: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/ggrepel/vignettes/ggrepel.html which seems to provide this functionality. Is there a similar library for MATLAB?

[oliver]

This kind of labelling has always been cumbersome in Matlab. Nevertheless, it is astonishing that this important functionality is included in freeware like R but not in sth as expensive as Matlab. I just had to create a scatter plot of a cyclone track through the SW Indian Ocean and needed to add time & date labels to each cyclone position. In R it looks rather nice, in Matlab it is a disaster.

One workaround may be

gtextm('String')

which places the labels manually, but if you have like 30 of them this isn't much fun.

Answer 1

[Cris LaPierre]

I am not aware of anything provided by MathWorks. You might look through this post, as well as looking into this file exchange function.

[oliver]

Labelpoints does not prevent the overlap of labels which is what the question was about.