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How can I plot the mean of sliding groups of data in R?

I have a frequency distribution I am trying to plot in R. The dataset is quite noisy however and results in an untidy plot.

I would like to take the mean of 10 unit sliding windows and plot that data instead. Hopefully this will clean up the plot, by reducing the number of data points?

I have tried scatter.smooth() and loess(), but these don't do what I want. I could code this myself, but wondered if anyone was aware of a function that might save the time?

Solution

  • I found this whilst continuing my search on Google - This appears to solve my problem :D

    https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/3051/mean-of-a-sliding-window-in-r

    Edit:

    I'm using the following

    library(zoo)
quartz()
plot(rollmean(freq_dist, 10))

    Works like a dream :-D

    I did an install.packages("zoo", dependencies=TRUE) in order to get the zoo library into R!