<rkevinburton <at> charter.net> writes: > > I have a a simple function that generates a time series square wave: >
Your example is not self-running, because the definition of e is unclear. > Now I ge the x-asis as the real component and y-axis as imaginary component. When does the display switch? > How many frequencies do I select before I get the 'Time' axis back? From the above I am selecting 40 (out of 1500). > When you modify components in the frequency domain, you must always take into account that these are mirrored at the center coefficient; any changes must be done symmetrically to the center. Well, strictly speaking: these are periodic, and it is much easier to think of swapping the upper half in mind to the negative axis. And a caveat: index 1 (R habits are bad here, it is effectively frequency 0) is special, it turns up only once and is the DC-component in electric speak. Asssume you have 8 coefficients, and you want to lowpass these: 9 4 5 6 1 6 5 4 9 4 5 0 0 0 5 4 As a check if you have done right, look at the imaginary components after the transformation back to time domain: these should be zero up to rounding errors. Dieter genseq <- function() { x <- numeric(4*365) s <- seq(as.Date("2005-01-01"), as.Date("2008-12-31"), by="month") ob <- as.vector(s[c(10,22,34,46)] - as.Date("2005-01-01")) oe <- as.vector(s[c(11,23,35,47)] - as.Date("2005-01-01")) for(.index in 1:length(ob)) { x[ob[.index]:(oe[.index] - 1)] <- 1 } return(ts(x, frequency=365)) } par(mfcol=c(3,1)) series <- genseq() fs <- fft(series) fi <- fft(fs, inverse=TRUE) / length(fs) plot(fi) ff <- fs lowpass <- 10 ff[lowpass:(length(ff)-lowpass+2)] = 0 plot(ff) fi <- fft(ff, inverse=TRUE) / length(fs) var(Im(fi)) # Check imaginary part, simple way plot(fi) # This contains an error ff[lowpass:length(ff)] = 0 fi <- fft(ff, inverse=TRUE) / length(fs) var(Im(fi)) # Imaginary part is large ______________________________________________ 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.