I think this will do it: sum(sqrt(diff(x.pred)^2 + diff(y.pred)^2))
Michael On Tue, Nov 8, 2011 at 11:34 AM, Nicolas Schuck <nico.sch...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Dear R-community, > > I have a fitted bivariate polynomial, i.e: > > fit = lm(cbind(x, y)~poly(t, 15)) > > and I would like to determine the length of the line in the interval t = > [a, b]. Obviously, I could use predict and go through all the points, i.e. > > for (t in a:(b-1)) { > length = length + sqrt((x.pred[t] - x.pred[t+1])^2 + (y.pred[t] - > y.pred[t+1])^2) > } > > but that would take very long given the amount of data I have. Do you know > of any better solutions? > > Many thanks! > Nicolas > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.