[R] How to shade vertical bands in a graph?

[Jim Lemon]

del pes wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I would like to draw vertical yellow bands in my graph, but could not find how to do that in the documentation.
> 
> I set up a page to show what I would like to achieve: http://rstudent.blogg.de/eintrag.php?id=1 (the first picture was manually colored with the Gimp).
> 
Hi Delfina,
For a one-off, I would use the rect function.

fakedat<-0.985+rnorm(80)/100
plot(fakedat,main="My Striped Plot",type="n")
rect(seq(5,75,by=10),par("usr")[3],seq(10,80,by=10),par("usr")[4],
  col="yellow")
points(fakedat,type="b")
abline(h=0.98)

Jim