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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Hi,</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I want to produce charts using quantmod similar to the ones available from FRED. Specifically, FRED has this handy feature of rendering the NBER-defined recession periods under the displayed time series.</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">It seems like calling newTA with the appropriate function handle could produce the output necessary to define the shading bars, but I'm not sure if any of the existing charting types can generate the correct look and feel. Anybody have suggestions?</FONT><BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks,</FONT><BR>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Brian</FONT>
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