[R] Help using smooth.spline with zoo object

Gabor Grothendieck ggrothendieck at gmail.com
Sat Apr 4 21:38:21 CEST 2009


Try this:

library(zoo)
library(lattice)
z <- as.zoo(EuStockMarkets)
xyplot(z) # original
xyplot(z, type = "smooth") # smooth

In zoo see ?xyplot.zoo and in lattice see ?panel.xyplot


On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Rob Denniker <bearmarketsrule at inbox.com> wrote:
> Can someone please show me how to smooth time series data that I have in the form of a zoo object?
>
> I have a monthly economies series and all I really need is to see a less jagged line when I plot it.
>
> If I do something like
>
> s <- smooth.spline(d.zoo$Y, spar = 0.2)
> plot(predict(s,index(d.zoo)), xlab = "Year")
> # not defined for Date objects
>
> and if I do something like
>
> plot(predict(s,as.numeric(index(d.zoo))), xlab = "Year")
> # one straight line, no matter the value of spar
>
> What am I doing wrong? (The unsmoothed series plots just fine - a noisy upward trend)
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> P.S. I would really just like to keep varying the penalty parameter 'lambda' of a Hodrick-Prescott filter until I get a 'smooth enough' series, but an archive search suggests that if I ask for this, some smarty pants will reply saying that the HP filter is just the smooth.spline function applied with a particular choice of lambda and equally spaced observations.
>
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