Highlighting a specific period in a time series

To highlight a specific period in a time series, you can display it in the plot in a different background color. The chart.TimeSeries() function in the PerformanceAnalytics package offers a very easy and flexible way of doing this.

Let's examine some of the arguments of this function:

chart.TimeSeries(R, period.areas, period.color)

R is an xts, time series, or zoo object of asset returns, period.areas are shaded areas specified by a start and end date in a vector of xts date ranges like c("1926-10/1927-11"), and period.color draws the shaded region in whichever color is specified.

In this exercise, you will highlight a single period in a chart of the Citigroup time series in data.

This exercise is part of the course

Visualizing Time Series Data in R

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Exercise instructions

Create an object called period containing the first three months of 2015
Using the chart.TimeSeries() function, highlight the citigroup data values in the period
Use chart.TimeSeries() again to redraw the same line chart but this time set the color of the highlighted period to "lightgrey"

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

# Create period to hold the 3 months of 2015


# Highlight the first three months of 2015 


# Highlight the first three months of 2015 in light grey

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