R help - Jul 2009 - Loess question

Hi, suppose I have a vector of values in 'A'. Suppose I use:
scatter.smooth(A) to add in a smooth curve. Is there a way to obtain the
maximum value of the smoothed curve? Anyways, any help will be greatly
appreciated!
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Hi,

On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:35 AM, njhuang86 wrote:
> Hi, suppose I have a vector of values in 'A'. Suppose I use:
> scatter.smooth(A) to add in a smooth curve. Is there a way to obtain  
> the
> maximum value of the smoothed curve? Anyways, any help will be greatly
> appreciated!
Look at the help for scatter.smooth: ?scatter.smooth

You'll also find the loess.smooth function -- in the Values section of  
the help, you'll see that loess.smooth returns the x/y vals of the  
smoothed line that's plotted.

Can you just use that and get the max of the result$y you get back?  
Something like:

smoothed <- loess.smooth(my.x, my.y)
max(smoothed$y)

-steve

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