I've used this positioning method in the directlabels package for years, and it was working successfully not even 3-4 months ago. However, I keep getting the same error message. Any suggestions? I find this method looks much neater than ggrepel, though I haven't worked with that package very much.
geom_dl(aes(label=Var1),method=list("last.bumpup",cex=0.8))
Error in get(method[[1]]) : object 'last.bumpup' not found