On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 12:21 PM, James Toll <ja...@jtoll.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to add a rectangular colored background area to a plot of a time > series of relative price changes. I believe that what I'm trying to do is > very similar to the question and example given here: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/r-h...@stat.math.ethz.ch/msg73948.html > http://www.mayin.org/ajayshah/KB/R/html/g5.html > > My problem/difference is that my time series looks like so: > >> library(quantmod) >> getSymbols("^GSPC", from="2008-01-01") >> xtsPR <- diff(log(Ad(GSPC))) >> head(xtsPR) > GSPC.Adjusted > 2008-01-02 NA > 2008-01-03 0.000000000 > 2008-01-04 -0.024857950 > 2008-01-07 0.003218041 > 2008-01-08 -0.018522677 > 2008-01-09 0.013532064 > > So my dates along the x-axis are in the format "2008-01-02" rather than > "2008", as in the example. > > To keep things simple, I've simply been trying to plot the time series using > the plot command: > > plot(xtsPR) > > and then adding either a polygon, or preferably, a rect: > > rect(2009-01-02, -0.10, 2009-12-31, 0.10, border = 0, col = "blue") > > But nothing is added to the plot when I try to add the rectangle, but I don't > get an error message either. > > My question is how do I specify my x coordinates to draw the polygon or rect, > given that my scale is of the form "2008-01-02" rather than simply "2008"? > > Additionally, do I have to use polygon, even if I'm trying to drawing a > rectangle, as was the case in the examples linked above? > > I'd like to be able to use this with chartSeries, rather than plot, but I > thought it would be easiest to figure it out using plot first. Clearly that > hasn't helped me. >
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