[R] loess documentation

[Bill Simpson]

do this:
help.start()
click on
Search Engine & Keywords
search for "smooth"

You will find various smoothing methods. Sounds like ksmooth is something
you'd like.

It sounds to me you'd like some simple filtering. If so, just convolve
your data with the filter you want to pass it through (lowpass, bandpass).

out = x * h, where x is input, h is filter, and * is convolution

Use convolve().  Here is an example:
#Bracewell The Fourier transform and its applications, chap 3 (p.32 in 2nd
#edition): {2 2 3 3 4} * {1 1 2} = {2 4 9 10 13 10 8}
x<-c(2,2,3,3,4)
h<-c(1,1,2)
out<-convolve(x,rev(h),type="o") #need to do rev due to fault in R code

I pointed it out several times to the R-developers that convolve() should
do convolution by default! However they prefer it to do correlation by
default (which makes no sense to me). Anyway the workaround is to use
rev(h).

Bill

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