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Message-ID: <20030410201724.GA724@sonny.eddelbuettel.com>
Date: 2003-04-10T20:17:24Z
From: Dirk Eddelbuettel
Subject: A Question on lowess() function
In-Reply-To: <HDEPJCAKDEJMEEHKJOKEMEEACAAA.myao@ou.edu>

On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 02:58:15PM -0500, Minghua Yao wrote:
> I used y<-x[!is.na(x)] to get rid of NA and NaN. But I don't know how to get
> rid of Inf.

y<-x[is.finite(x)]   # remove NA,NaN,and Inf all at once

> Also, is there more detailed info about loess() than help(loess)?

help(loess) offers a references to the literature. It doesn't get much more 
detailed than papers in scholarly journals and books.

Dirk

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