[R] Fourier Transform fft help

[delic]

After extensive research I found some information hinting at my freq array
being wrong. I thought that the data spanned -F/2 to F/2. It seems that I
should only plot the first half of the fft vector? Can anyone confirm or
shed some light on this?

One other thing I thought the magnitude should be 10 for 10* sin(2*pi*10*t),
my magnitudes are much higher.



delic wrote:
> 
> I wrote a script that I anticipating seeing a spike at  10Hz with the
> function 10* sin(2*pi*10*t). 
> I can't figure out why my plots  do not show spikes at the frequencies I
> expect. Am I doing something wrong or is my expectations wrong?
> 
> 
> require(stats)
> layout(matrix(c(1,2,3), 3, 1, byrow = TRUE))
> #SETUP
>    n    <- 256 #nextn(1001) gives next power 2
>    F    <- 100 #Hz -50 to 50 Hz
>    dt   <- 1/F
>    T    <- n*dt
>    df   <- 1/T
>    t    <- seq(0,T,by=dt)  #also try ts function
>    t<-t[1:length(t)-1]
>    freq <- 5 #Hz
> 
> #SIGNAL FUNCTION
>    y     <- 10* sin(2*pi*10*t)   #10*sin(2*pi*freq*t) 
> #FREQ ARRAY
>    #f     <- seq(-F/2,F/2,by=df)
> 	f     <- F/2*seq(-1,1,length.out=n+1)
>    f<-f[1:length(f)-1]
> #FOURIER WORK
>    Y     <- fft(y)
>    mag   <- sqrt(Re(Y)^2+Im(Y)^2)
>    phase <- atan(Im(Y)/Re(Y))
>    Yr    <- Re(Y)
>    Yi    <- Im(Y)
> 
> #PLOT SIGNALS
>    plot(t,y,type="l",xlim=c(0,T)) 
>    plot(f,Re(Y),type="l")
>    plot(f,Im(Y),type="l")
> 

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