# pgfplots: “nodes near coords” on xbar chart is off

I am trying to make an xbar chart using pgfplots, and I'd like to add the bar's value to the bar.

Simply using "nodes near coords" positions the value for a ybar chart, which isn't correct here. What's the best way to position these nodes?

My code:

\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage{tikz}
\usepackage{pgfplots}
\begin{filecontents}{my.dat}
Label     value       num
992       70          1
993       120         2
994       30          3
995       330         4
999       50          5
988       50          6
989       50          7
983       50          8
\end{filecontents}
\begin{document}

\begin{tikzpicture}
\begin{axis}[
xbar,
xlabel=My value,
ylabel=Label here,
xmajorgrids=true,
ytick=data,
yticklabels from table={my.dat}{Label},
nodes near coords,
]
\addplot table [x=value, y=num]
{my.dat};
\end{axis}

\end{tikzpicture}

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## 1 Answer

You can tell pgfplots to label the coordinates correctly by setting nodes near coords align=horizontal.

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Interesting - that should have worked automatically for xbar. Probably a bug; I'll take a note to look into it. –  Christian Feuersänger Oct 16 '11 at 10:58