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 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.