[FRIAM] R tutorial for idiots.

[Robert Holmes]

On 9/24/06, Phil Henshaw <sy at synapse9.com> wrote:
>
>  Robert,
> ...My other problem is the one that had me writing my own entire software
> interface and analytic routines in the first place.  I seem to be using
> curves for a different purpose than other people.    Say you have a
> time-series of measures that reflect the life history of several independent
> overlapping natural feedback loop systems, each with their own separate
> growth, climax, disordering and decay periods. ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸     You
> wouldn't want your way of rendering the record of those events to erase all
> that critical beginning and ending information, and paint the whole history
> with shapes displaying the same wiggly but basically uneventful dynamics
> throughout.  That would make the underlying systems much harder to find and
> figure out.
> ...
>
> Phil Henshaw                       ¸¸¸¸.·´ ¯ `·.¸¸¸¸
>


Sorry Phil, I'm still not getting the issue. What do you mean when you say
"rendering the record of those events"? Does this mean plotting? Or does it
mean "find the parameters for some pre-determined curve that best fit the
data"? And if the latter, why bother creating the curve? What are you trying
to learn by fitting these curves? Are you seeking to extrapolate,
interpolate, or what?

A lot of questions here I'm afraid, but I'm just not grokking this!

R
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