Regions property for a Billboard.js chart

Add a shading effect to the background of the chart, to highlight a period for example.

Usage

bb_regions(bb, ...)

Arguments

bb

A billboard htmlwidget object.

...

See https://naver.github.io/billboard.js/release/latest/doc/Options.html#.regions

Value

A billboard

htmlwidget object.

Note

This function can be used with billboarderProxy in shiny application.

See also

bb_add_style

Examples

#' With a categorical X-axis
dat <- data.frame(
  month = month.abb,
  AirPassengers = tail(AirPassengers, 12)
)
# Highlight Jun/Jul/Aug
billboarder() %>% 
  bb_linechart(data = dat, x = "month") %>% 
  bb_x_axis(type = "category") %>% 
  bb_regions(
    list(start = 4.5, end = 7.5) #' jan = 0
  )

  
  



# With a barchart
billboarder() %>% 
  bb_barchart(data = dat) %>% 
  bb_regions(
    list(start = 1.5, end = 2.5, class = "custom"),
    list(start = 8, end = 10, class = "foo")
  ) %>% 
  bb_add_style(region = list(custom = "fill: red;", foo = "fill: #'009246;"))

  
  






# With Date X-axis
library("stats")
dat <- data.frame(
  date = seq.Date(from = Sys.Date(), by = "day", length.out = 365),
  var = density(rexp(n = 1000), n = 365)$y
)

billboarder() %>% 
  bb_linechart(data = dat) %>% 
  bb_x_axis(tick = list(fit = FALSE)) %>% 
  bb_y_axis(min = 0, padding = 0) %>% 
  bb_regions(
    list(start = format(Sys.Date() + 30), end = format(Sys.Date() + 120))
  )

  
  





# With POSIXct X-axis
dat <- data.frame(
  time = seq.POSIXt(from = Sys.time(), by = "min", length.out = 60),
  var = round(sort(rnorm(60)), 2)
)

billboarder() %>% 
  bb_linechart(data = dat) %>% 
  bb_x_axis(tick = list(format = "%H:%M", fit = FALSE)) %>%  
  bb_regions(
    list(start = format(dat$time[15]), 
         end = format(dat$time[30]))
  )