Savitzky-Golay Filter

Usage

smooth_savitzky(x, y, ...)

# S4 method for numeric,numeric
smooth_savitzky(x, y, m = 3, p = 2)

# S4 method for ANY,missing
smooth_savitzky(x, m, p)

Arguments

x, y: A numeric vector. If y is missing, an attempt is made to interpret x in a suitable way (see grDevices::xy.coords()).
...: Currently not used.
m: An odd integer giving the window size (i.e. the number of adjacent points to be used).
p: An integer giving the degree of the polynomial to be used.

Value

Returns a list with two components x and y.

Details

This method is based on the least-squares fitting of polynomials to segments of \(m\) adjacent points.

Note

There will be \((m - 1) / 2\) points both at the beginning and at the end of the data series for which a complete \(m\)-width window cannot be obtained. To prevent data loss, the original \((m - 1) / 2\) points at both ends of the data series are preserved.

References

Gorry, P. A. (1990). General Least-Squares Smoothing and Differentiation by the Convolution (Savitzky-Golay) Method. Analytical Chemistry, 62(6), p. 570-573. doi:10.1021/ac00205a007 .

Savitzky, A. & Golay, M. J. E. (1964). Smoothing and Differentiation of Data by Simplified Least Squares Procedures. Analytical Chemistry, 36(8), p. 1627-1639. doi:10.1021/ac60214a047 .

Author

N. Frerebeau

Examples

## Simulate data with some noise
x <- seq(-4, 4, length = 100)
y <- dnorm(x) + rnorm(100, mean = 0, sd = 0.01)

## Plot spectrum
plot(x, y, type = "l", xlab = "", ylab = "")


## Rectangular smoothing
unweighted <- smooth_rectangular(x, y, m = 3)
plot(unweighted, type = "l", xlab = "", ylab = "")


## Triangular smoothing
weighted <- smooth_triangular(x, y, m = 5)
plot(weighted, type = "l", xlab = "", ylab = "")


## Loess smoothing
loess <- smooth_loess(x, y, span = 0.75)
plot(loess, type = "l", xlab = "", ylab = "")


## Savitzky–Golay filter
savitzky <- smooth_savitzky(x, y, m = 21, p = 2)
plot(savitzky, type = "l", xlab = "", ylab = "")


## Whittaker smoothing
whittaker <- smooth_whittaker(x, y, lambda = 1600, d = 2)
plot(whittaker, type = "l", xlab = "", ylab = "")