Functional data analysis with R and MATLAB Giles Hooker, James Ramsay, Spencer Graves
Publisher: Springer

And, despite your fingers itching to code, take a few minutes to describe what this particular function does, and especially the meaning of each argument passed, and the values returned. While doing this I needed to write an R function to split up a dataset into training and testing sets so I could train models on one half and test them on unseen data. It also have tools to plot data like Matlab. It also have lots of build in maths and signal analysis function. I'm sure a function already exists to do something similar, but it was trivial enough to write a . In addition, I see R gaining traction in the industry; I decided to try using R for GC analysis. % also other signals are added that are multiple of F or 10 Hz but of lower amplitude. Octave is Matlab like tool for numerical calculation and data analysis. Those are the programs that your lab writes in Python, Perl, R or Matlab to classify, analyze, quantify and otherwise shake-and-bake the raw pink data you have until it is nicely and evenly cooked with a fine brown glaze of information coating. Whether that's due to knowing functional programming or past experience with Matlab, I don't know. % so by above theory, if signal is 10 Hz and samped at 40 Hz. R(n) += sin(2 * pi * F * n / Fs);. Here is little signal = sin ( 2 * pi * (F / Fs) * n). I have copied your script for future reference. I have played around with random forest analysis in Matlab and have now made the switch to R for data analysis.