#ts with a freq=1 d <- ts(x) #it seems that this is an oscillating signal of ~ a day plot(d) #spectrogram which shows that the main frequency component is ~ 0.7. this translates to about a day (1.3 or so) sec.pgram(d)
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 7:14 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have calculated the fourier transform of the series enclosed at the end > of this message, by doing: > > library(stats) > x <- readLines("file1.txt") > x.num <- as.numeric(x) > ft.x.num <- fft(x.num) > > My question is: why is the first value (Real) of ft.x.num that big? > (954.833870) all the other values are much smaller. Am I doing something > wrong? > > Could you please help me to understand that? > > Many thanks, Renata > > 2.24791 > 6.39824 > 7.43533 > 7.21367 > 11.2164 > 7.29183 > 9.72807 > 12.8445 > 12.4819 > 8.18952 > 6.38345 > 9.98463 > 6.25724 > 7.97327 > 8.9676 > 8.27709 > 14.8272 > 13.4908 > 11.876 > 11.4889 > 11.3161 > 9.79778 > 8.09873 > 4.43935 > 5.30657 > 9.37819 > 0 > 8.09507 > 10.9567 > 10.5478 > 12.6661 > 13.8612 > 14.025 > 13.9403 > 11.5847 > 9.50861 > 7.81196 > 5.42222 > 5.27313 > 4.16159 > 3.83932 > 8.95892 > 11.9548 > 12.7598 > 11.6816 > 13.3388 > 13.1956 > 9.50887 > 12.4671 > 11.2608 > 12.6553 > 5.63253 > 4.18556 > 4.47097 > 9.13142 > 5.29101 > 11.3582 > 7.5489 > 13.0371 > 9.26487 > 11.6458 > 6.26179 > 10.4051 > 11.7282 > 9.36171 > 10.7723 > 4.90151 > 4.25747 > 6.95437 > 6.17832 > 11.59 > 13.894 > 10.8935 > 8.19078 > 6.27219 > 6.74875 > 10.076 > 6.47078 > 11.1408 > 6.48286 > 10.4232 > 9.23548 > 11.199 > 7.97828 > 13.1261 > 12.1624 > 7.90476 > 11.7495 > 14.0312 > 9.97212 > 11.3685 > 12.6093 > 4.68484 > 4.72131 > 5.10963 > 8.1693 > 8.21239 > 10.6743 > 5.39084 > 11.1944 > 12.4415 > 8.0419 > 5.62567 > 12.2756 > 0 > > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked <http://www.virginmedia.com/emailVirus-checked> using > McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > ______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Let's not spend our time and resources thinking about things that are so little or so large that all they really do for us is puff us up and make us feel like gods. We are mammals, and have not exhausted the annoying little problems of being mammals. -K. Mullis [[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.