R help - Jan 2009 - interpolation to abscissa

Readers,

I have looked at various documents hosted on the web site; I couldn't
find anything on interpolation. So I started r and accessed the help
(help.start()). (by the way is it possible to configure r to open help
in opera instead of firefox?) Initially I read the help for the akima
package but couldn't understand it. Next I tried the asplines package
help.

I tried to copy the example: x<-c(-3,-2,...

I realised that the 'n=...' parameter determines the resolution of the
line, so I practised the following subsequent commands:
> x<-c(-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,2.5,3)
> y<-c(0,0,0,0,-1,-1,0,2)
> plot(x,y,ylim=c(-3,3))
I get the graph as expected

Then I enter further commands:

lines(spline(x,y,n=200),col="blue")
lines(spline(x,y,n=20),col="blue")
lines(spline(x,y,n=2),col="blue")
lines(spline(x, y, n=5), col="blue")
>From this I learn that n corresponds to line resolution. :)
However I could not find a way to remove the last 3 commands and then
show only the first line. How do I achieve this please?

I am learning this package in order to perform my next task; interpolation.

If I have a linear relationship between two variables and plot the
results, how do I manipulate the graph to be able to show a value of
the abscissa, especially for negative values, i.e. where the linear
line intersects the x axis left of the y axis?

There are 4 packages that claim interpolation (akima, aspline, interp,
interpp) but they seem far to complicated, especially the latter two.
Is there a simpler package I could use?

Yours,

rhelp at conference.jabber.org

r 251 (27-06-07)
mandriva 2008

If you want to just linearly interpolate, then use the functions approx or
approxfun from the stats package (one of those that is loaded by default).  See
the function TkApprox in the TeachingDemos package for an interactive way to
plot the approximations with the interpolations plotted.

Hope this helps,

-- 
Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center
Intermountain Healthcare
greg.snow at imail.org
801.408.8111

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> 
> Readers,
> 
> I have looked at various documents hosted on the web site; I couldn't
> find anything on interpolation. So I started r and accessed the help
> (help.start()). (by the way is it possible to configure r to open help
> in opera instead of firefox?) Initially I read the help for the akima
> package but couldn't understand it. Next I tried the asplines package
> help.
> 
> I tried to copy the example: x<-c(-3,-2,...
> 
> I realised that the 'n=...' parameter determines the resolution of
the
> line, so I practised the following subsequent commands:
> 
> > x<-c(-3,-2,-1,0,1,2,2.5,3)
> > y<-c(0,0,0,0,-1,-1,0,2)
> > plot(x,y,ylim=c(-3,3))
> 
> I get the graph as expected
> 
> Then I enter further commands:
> 
> lines(spline(x,y,n=200),col="blue")
> lines(spline(x,y,n=20),col="blue")
> lines(spline(x,y,n=2),col="blue")
> lines(spline(x, y, n=5), col="blue")
> 
> >From this I learn that n corresponds to line resolution. :)
> 
> However I could not find a way to remove the last 3 commands and then
> show only the first line. How do I achieve this please?
> 
> I am learning this package in order to perform my next task;
> interpolation.
> 
> If I have a linear relationship between two variables and plot the
> results, how do I manipulate the graph to be able to show a value of
> the abscissa, especially for negative values, i.e. where the linear
> line intersects the x axis left of the y axis?
> 
> There are 4 packages that claim interpolation (akima, aspline, interp,
> interpp) but they seem far to complicated, especially the latter two.
> Is there a simpler package I could use?
> 
> Yours,
> 
> rhelp at conference.jabber.org
> 
> r 251 (27-06-07)
> mandriva 2008
> 
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On Jan 8, 2009, at 11:22 AM, e-letter wrote:
> Readers,
>
> I have looked at various documents hosted on the web site; I couldn't
> find anything on interpolation. So I started r and accessed the help
> (help.start()). (by the way is it possible to configure r to open help
> in opera instead of firefox?)
Look at options()$browser and reconfigure if necessary.

 > options()$browser
[1] "/usr/bin/open"

or...
 > options("browser")
$browser
[1] "/usr/bin/open

Which means that the default is set by my system configuration. I had  
earlier
followed some advice offered me in a warning and changed the default  
pdf viewer
configuration, which should be an easy-to-rejigger example:

 > options("eps_view"=  "/Applications/Preview.app")

-- 
David Winsemius