vega stocks spec forked to add shaded blocks
Often time series charts can be enhanced by shaded blocks to highlight events or periods as shown by this example which uses the R package xtsExtra. Vega specs already allow this functionality, and it is fairly easy to implement.
I added an events object to the JSON data array.
{
"name": "events",
"values": [
{"name":"Test1", "start":"Apr 2000", "end":"Mar 2003"},