[R] Fitting a curve to data

[Gabor Grothendieck]

There is an integrate.xy in sfsmic.  Limitations discussed there.

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 6:27 PM, stephen sefick <ssefick at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would like to know the answer to this question now that I know what we are
> getting at.  integrate() looks like it is the right thing, but it has to use
> a function-  I would like to know how to just integrate the area under a
> curve with just an input of x and y coordinates.
>
> Stephen
>
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 5:22 PM, Carl Witthoft <carl at witthoft.com> wrote:
>
>> I think the previous answer (to use lm() ) is not necessarily the best
>> option.
>>
>> Since what you want is the definite integral (area under the curve), you
>> can just use one of the existing definite integration tools (sorry, I don't
>> recall the names because I don't use them).
>>
>> If you want to get a "smoothed" curve to remove errors in your data points,
>>  I'd recommend fitting a spline and integrating under that.
>>
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