[R] colors for background and plotting area

[Peter Dalgaard BSA]

Ramon Diaz-Uriarte <ramon-diaz at teleline.es> writes:

> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to prepare some figures where I'd like the color of the plot region
> (i.e., the area bounded by the axes) to be different from the margin area
> (i.e., the area of the figure not within the axes region).  I can use "bg" but
> that changes the background of everything? How can I accomplish what I want?

I think one is stuck with things like

plot(2:10,type="n")
do.call("rect",c(as.list(par("usr")[c(1,3,2,4)]),list(col="pink")))
points(2:10)

(or for the middle line, somewhat simpler

bb <- par("usr")
rect(bb[1],bb[3],bb[2],bb[4], col="pink")

)

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