Shading a kernel density plot between two points.

Question

I frequently use kernel density plots to illustrate distributions. These are easy and fast to create in R like so:

set.seed(1)
draws <- rnorm(100)^2
dens          


        

Answer 1

An expanded solution:

If you wanted to shade both tails (copy & paste of Dirk's code) and use known x values:

set.seed(1)
draws <- rnorm(100)^2
dens <- density(draws)
plot(dens)

q2     <- 2
q65    <- 6.5
qn08   <- -0.8
qn02   <- -0.2

x1 <- min(which(dens$x >= q2))  
x2 <- max(which(dens$x <  q65))
x3 <- min(which(dens$x >= qn08))  
x4 <- max(which(dens$x <  qn02))

with(dens, polygon(x=c(x[c(x1,x1:x2,x2)]), y= c(0, y[x1:x2], 0), col="gray"))
with(dens, polygon(x=c(x[c(x3,x3:x4,x4)]), y= c(0, y[x3:x4], 0), col="gray"))

Result: