Is there a way to combine a background plot and range plot on same chart?

[pssguy]

For instance, having presidential timescales as background and supreme court justices as range or box plots. I tried combining the two in one data.frame with the type column set differently but that does not appear to be a solution

[daattali]

Unless I'm not understanding the question, yes you can certainly combine background and range, as I'm doing in the "Groups" tab in the demo app.

dataGroups <- data.frame(
  id = 1:11,
  content = c("Open", "Open",
              "Open", "Open", "Half price entry",
              "Staff meeting", "Open", "Adults only", "Open", "Hot tub closes",
              "Siesta"),
  start = c("2016-05-01 07:30:00", "2016-05-01 14:00:00",
            "2016-05-01 06:00:00", "2016-05-01 14:00:00", "2016-05-01 08:00:00",
            "2016-05-01 08:00:00", "2016-05-01 08:30:00", "2016-05-01 14:00:00",
            "2016-05-01 16:00:00", "2016-05-01 19:30:00",
            "2016-05-01 12:00:00"),
  end   = c("2016-05-01 12:00:00", "2016-05-01 20:00:00",
            "2016-05-01 12:00:00", "2016-05-01 22:00:00", "2016-05-01 10:00:00",
            "2016-05-01 08:30:00", "2016-05-01 12:00:00", "2016-05-01 16:00:00",
            "2016-05-01 20:00:00", NA,
            "2016-05-01 14:00:00"),
  group = c(rep("lib", 2), rep("gym", 3), rep("pool", 5), NA),
  type = c(rep("range", 9), "point", "background")
)

groups <- data.frame(
  id = c("lib", "gym", "pool"),
  content = c("Library", "Gym", "Pool")
)

You can also have a background item in only one group instead of across all groups.

[daattali]

Closing the issue as I think I answered the question