[R] Fitting a sine wave using solver

[baptiste auguie]

Just a thought on this topic, I found Harminv quite powerful for this  
sort of task. I wonder whether it could be wrapped into a R package  
(it's GPL).

http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Harminv


On 20 Nov 2008, at 22:46, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:

> See e.g.
>
> http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/131024.html
>
> RSiteSearch() produced this and similar relevant past postings.
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> On Thu, 20 Nov 2008, Ben Zuckerberg wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I have several sets of oscillation data and would like to estimate  
>> the
>> parameters of a sine function to each set (and hopefully automate  
>> this).  A
>> colleague provided an excel sheet that uses solver to minimize the  
>> RSS after
>> fitting the sine function to each data set, but this cumbersome and  
>> difficult
>> to automate.  Is there a method in R for fitting a given sine  
>> function to a
>> supplied data using maximum likelihood estimation (or minimizing  
>> the RSS).
>> Thanks in advance.
>>
>> --
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