[r] How to fit a smooth curve to my data in R?

LOESS is a very good approach, as Dirk said.

Another option is using Bezier splines, which may in some cases work better than LOESS if you don't have many data points.

Here you'll find an example: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Cubic_bezier_curves#R

# x, y: the x and y coordinates of the hull points
# n: the number of points in the curve.
bezierCurve <- function(x, y, n=10)
    {
    outx <- NULL
    outy <- NULL

    i <- 1
    for (t in seq(0, 1, length.out=n))
        {
        b <- bez(x, y, t)
        outx[i] <- b$x
        outy[i] <- b$y

        i <- i+1
        }

    return (list(x=outx, y=outy))
    }

bez <- function(x, y, t)
    {
    outx <- 0
    outy <- 0
    n <- length(x)-1
    for (i in 0:n)
        {
        outx <- outx + choose(n, i)*((1-t)^(n-i))*t^i*x[i+1]
        outy <- outy + choose(n, i)*((1-t)^(n-i))*t^i*y[i+1]
        }

    return (list(x=outx, y=outy))
    }

# Example usage
x <- c(4,6,4,5,6,7)
y <- 1:6
plot(x, y, "o", pch=20)
points(bezierCurve(x,y,20), type="l", col="red")

Examples related to r

How to get AIC from Conway–Maxwell-Poisson regression via COM-poisson package in R? R : how to simply repeat a command? session not created: This version of ChromeDriver only supports Chrome version 74 error with ChromeDriver Chrome using Selenium How to show code but hide output in RMarkdown? remove kernel on jupyter notebook Function to calculate R2 (R-squared) in R Center Plot title in ggplot2 R ggplot2: stat_count() must not be used with a y aesthetic error in Bar graph R multiple conditions in if statement What does "The following object is masked from 'package:xxx'" mean?

Examples related to plot

Fine control over the font size in Seaborn plots for academic papers Why do many examples use `fig, ax = plt.subplots()` in Matplotlib/pyplot/python Modify the legend of pandas bar plot Format y axis as percent Simple line plots using seaborn Plot bar graph from Pandas DataFrame Plotting multiple lines, in different colors, with pandas dataframe Plotting in a non-blocking way with Matplotlib What does the error "arguments imply differing number of rows: x, y" mean? matplotlib get ylim values

Examples related to curve-fitting

python numpy/scipy curve fitting fitting data with numpy Fitting a histogram with python Linear regression with matplotlib / numpy Fitting polynomial model to data in R How to fit a smooth curve to my data in R? How to do exponential and logarithmic curve fitting in Python? I found only polynomial fitting Fitting a density curve to a histogram in R How do I calculate r-squared using Python and Numpy?