[R] k-d tree for loess

[Prof Brian Ripley]

First a warning: loess in R is only loosely related to loess in S, being 
derived from a C implementation (by the same authors).

In R I don't think you can do this.  Those details are never exposed, and 
are hidden in an undocumented C/Fortran workspace.

On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Carlisle Thacker wrote:

> I am exploring the use of loess for oceanographic applications and would
> like to plot the locations (longitude and latitude) points where the models
> (salinity~temperature*longitude*latitude,parametric="temperature") are
> fitted.  Chambers and Hastie(1993) explains the locations are nodes of a
> k-d tree. but I cannot find anything about accessing this information.  It
> would be useful to superimpose on such plots contours of the weights for at
> least one point.  Sample code of drawing such plots would be greatly
> appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carlisle Thacker

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