Shading a kernel density plot between two points.

Another solution:

dd <- with(dens,data.frame(x,y))

library(ggplot2)

qplot(x,y,data=dd,geom="line")+
  geom_ribbon(data=subset(dd,x>q75 & x<q95),aes(ymax=y),ymin=0,
              fill="red",colour=NA,alpha=0.5)

Result:

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:

With the polygon() function, see its help page and I believe we had similar questions here too.

You need to find the index of the quantile values to get the actual (x,y) pairs.

Edit: Here you go:

x1 <- min(which(dens$x >= q75))  
x2 <- max(which(dens$x <  q95))
with(dens, polygon(x=c(x[c(x1,x1:x2,x2)]), y= c(0, y[x1:x2], 0), col="gray"))

Output (added by JDL)