[R] Calculation of lags

[Gabor Grothendieck]

Represent your series as a ts object and see ?lag
Also lag.plot may or may not be of use to  you.


On 7/2/06, Ronaldo Reis-Jr. <chrysopa at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> If I have the follow situation:
>
> A dependent variable (i.e. number of insects) that is affected by an
> independent variable (i.e. rain). The problem is that the measure of rain
> affect the population in other moment. So there exit a lag between the rain
> and the number of insects. Exist in R any tool to find what is this lag?
>
> Explain better.
>
> Suppose that I have a linear relationship between rain and insects. More rain
> make more insects. If I try to model the rain and insects in the same moment
> I cant see this relationship because the rain today affect the number of
> insects in the future. Thus, I need to model the present rain with the number
> of insect in the future. But when is this future? 1 day after, 2 days after,
> etc.
>
> How the best way to calculate this lag?
>
> Thanks
> Ronaldo
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