[R] abline with zoo series

Erin Hodgess erinm.hodgess at gmail.com
Fri Nov 25 07:53:35 CET 2016


Nice!  That's perfect!

Thanks very much!

Sincerely,
Erin

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 11:27 PM, Gabor Grothendieck <
ggrothendieck at gmail.com> wrote:

> Recessions are typically shown by shading.  The zoo package has
> xblocks for this purpose.  If app1 is your zoo object then:
>
> plot(app1)
> tt <- time(app1)
> xblocks(tt, tt >= "1990-07-01" & tt <= "1991-03-31",
>    col = rgb(0.7, 0.7, 0.7, 0.5)) # transparent grey
>
> See ?xblocks for more info.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 10:03 PM, Erin Hodgess <erinm.hodgess at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hello!  Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating.
> >
> > I have a zoo series that I am plotting, and I would like to have some
> > vertical lines at certain points, to indicate US business cycles.  Here
> is
> > an example:
> >
> > app1 <- get.hist.quote(instrument="appl",
> > start="1985-01-01",end="2016-08-31", quote="AdjClose", compression="m")
> > #Fine
> > plot(app1,main="Historical Stock Prices: Apple Corporation")
> > #Still Fine
> > #Now I want to use abline at July 1990 and March 1991 (as a start) for
> > business cycles.  I tried v=67 and v="1990-07", no good.
> >
> > I have a feeling that it's really simple and I'm just not seeing it.
> >
> > Any help much appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Erin
> >
> >
> > --
> > Erin Hodgess
> > Associate Professor
> > Department of Mathematical and Statistics
> > University of Houston - Downtown
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Erin Hodgess
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematical and Statistics
University of Houston - Downtown
mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

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