Add Shaded Background to a Plot

Source: R/addShadedBackground.R

Adds vertical lines to an existing plot using any variable that shares the same length as the time axis of the current plot. Line widths corresponds to magnitude of values.

addShadedBackground(
  param,
  timeAxis,
  breaks = stats::quantile(param, na.rm = TRUE),
  col = "blue",
  maxOpacity = 0.2,
  lwd = 1
)

Arguments

param

vector of data to be represented
timeAxis

vector of times of the same length as param
breaks

set of breaks used to assign colors
col

color for vertical lines
maxOpacity

maximum opacity
lwd

line width