[R] Filling in a uniform dist plot

[Peter Dalgaard]

David Kaplan wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Apologies in advance if this is really too simple, but I have given a 
> good shot at this.  I'm generating a standard uniform distibution
> 
> y <- dunif(x)
> plot(x,y,type="l")
> 
> This will draw a horizontal line at y = 1.  I want to fill the area from 
> x=(0,1) with a color.  I've tried the polygon command to create a 
> polygon of the same shape, but can't seem to set the parameters to fill 
> the figure from x=(0,1).  I'm sure there is an easy way to do this, but 
> any advice would be welcome.
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Something like

x <- seq(0,1,,10)
y <- dunif(x)
plot(x,y, ylim=range(0,y))
polygon(c(0,x,1), c(0,y,0), col="red", border=NA)


> David
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