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Actual values of smooth/spline curve in xyplot R

I would like to obtain the actual values of the smoothed curve. Precisely, values lying on the smoothed curve so that corresponding values of x and y are known given the point on the curve.

I have discrete data and I fit smoothed curve via xyplot(....,type="spline",...)

The smoothed curve looks like this:

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I have tried to fit polynomial so that y~x+x^2+x^3...+x^15 so that if x is given, we obtain the "precise" value of y. However, I'm not happy fitting the polynomial etc. What other way would be to obtain the y-axis and x-axis values by moving only on the curve?

Solution

  • The documentation, ?xyplot, points you to panel.xyplot and then to panel.spline, which returns the model used.

    r <- panel.spline(x,y)
predict(r, 3)$y