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2011 Mar 18
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Difficulty with 'loess' function
...have done this using the 'lowess' function and had no problem, but I'm having some difficulty with loess. I am inputting the date ('date') and discharge ('q') values using the 'scan' function, then inputting the following: > dateq<-data.frame(date,q) > dateq_smooth<-loess(dateq,span=.5) > dateq_smooth_pred<-predict(dateq_smooth,date) > dateq_smooth_pred [1] 1959.164 1959.516 1963.379 1967.121 1963.781 1970.601 1958.056 1948.846 1954.247 [10] 1954.718 1969.460 1960.974 1949.845 1962.436 1968.374 1954.247 1956.135 1948.852 [19] 1948.846 1957.893 19...