R - Print specific country names in a map using rworldmap - r

Question

I am creating a heatmap using the map of Europe in rworldmap package in R (since I don't know how to do this with ggmap or ggplot2).
I need to plot the country names of the countries that are present in my dataframe only, not all european countries. How can I do this?
My code:
library(RColorBrewer)
#getting colours
colourPalette <- brewer.pal(5,'RdPu')
library(rworldmap)
europe <- data.frame(
"country" = c("Greece",
"France",
"Spain",
"Italy",
"UK",
"Finland","Norway","Sweden",
"Germany",
"Romania"),
"x" = c(2.5, 3, 2.2, 1.8,2.32, 1.99, 2.01, 2.34, 1.88, 2.45))
matched <- joinCountryData2Map(europe, joinCode="NAME", nameJoinColumn="country")
mapParams <- mapCountryData(matched,
nameColumnToPlot="x",
mapTitle="my Titley",
addLegend=FALSE,
mapRegion="Europe"
,colourPalette=colourPalette,
oceanCol="#404040", missingCountryCol="#A0A0A0")
#adding legend
do.call(addMapLegend
,c(mapParams
,legendLabels="all"
,legendWidth=0.5
,legendIntervals="data"
,legendMar = 2))
labelCountries()
Using labelCountries() prints all country names and it's not readable.
Thanks

Answer 1

With a little bit help of this previously answer:
# get the coordinates for each country
country_coord<-data.frame(coordinates(matched),stringsAsFactors=F)
# label the countries
country = c("Greece",
"France",
"Spain",
"Italy",
"UK",
"Finland","Norway","Sweden",
"Germany",
"Romania")
#filter your wanted countrys
country_coord = country_coord[country,]
#insert your labels in plot
text(x=country_coord$X1,y=country_coord$X2,labels=row.names(country_coord))
you can add the country labels with text but you must extract the coordinates before from your matched coordinates.
Output:
You might play a bit with col = "color" in text, since some country can barely been read. Or maybe change the color scale in your map