[R] color area between two time-series via polygon()?

[jim holtman]

I think you have to change one statement in your program:

 xx <- cbind(time(z[,1]),rev(time(z[,2])))



On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:44 PM,  <Jan.Verbesselt at csiro.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
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>
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> I would like to color the area between two time-series. I tried it by
> using the polygon() function but I keeps drawing lines between beginning
> and end points.
>
> Is there another more appropriate function or how could I close the
> polygon at the end en the beginning of the time series (e.g., drawing a
> straight line)?
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> The following doesn't plot a polygon between the two time-series:
>
> z <- ts(matrix(rnorm(200), 100), start=c(1961, 1), frequency=12)
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> plot(z, plot.type="single", lty=1:2)
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> xx <- cbind(time(z[,1]),rev(z[,2]))
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> yy <- cbind(as.vector(z[,1]),rev(as.vector(z[,2])))
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> polygon(xx,yy, col="gray", border = "red")
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> I would like to make it look like this (but then for time series)
>
> n <- 100
> xx <- c(0:n, n:0)
> yy <- c(c(0,cumsum(stats::rnorm(n))), rev(c(0,cumsum(stats::rnorm(n)))))
> plot   (xx, yy, type="n", xlab="Time", ylab="Distance")
> polygon(xx, yy, col="gray", border = "red")
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> Thanks for your help,
>
> Jan
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