I wrote a script that I anticipating seeing a spike at 10Hz with the function 10* sin(2*pi*10*t). I can't figure out why my plots do not show spikes at the frequencies I expect. Am I doing something wrong or is my expectations wrong?
require(stats) layout(matrix(c(1,2,3), 3, 1, byrow = TRUE)) #SETUP n <- 256 #nextn(1001) gives next power 2 F <- 100 #Hz -50 to 50 Hz dt <- 1/F T <- n*dt df <- 1/T t <- seq(0,T,by=dt) #also try ts function t<-t[1:length(t)-1] freq <- 5 #Hz #SIGNAL FUNCTION y <- 10* sin(2*pi*10*t) #10*sin(2*pi*freq*t) #FREQ ARRAY #f <- seq(-F/2,F/2,by=df) f <- F/2*seq(-1,1,length.out=n+1) f<-f[1:length(f)-1] #FOURIER WORK Y <- fft(y) mag <- sqrt(Re(Y)^2+Im(Y)^2) phase <- atan(Im(Y)/Re(Y)) Yr <- Re(Y) Yi <- Im(Y) #PLOT SIGNALS plot(t,y,type="l",xlim=c(0,T)) plot(f,Re(Y),type="l") plot(f,Im(Y),type="l") -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Fourier-Transform-fft-help-tp25475063p25475063.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ 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.