Thank you, I will have a look at rollapply
Dr. Iasonas Lamprianou
Department of Social and Political Sciences
University of Cyprus
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> From: David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net>
>To: Iasonas Lamprianou <lampria...@yahoo.com>
>Cc: "r-help@r-project.org" <r-help@r-project.org>
>Sent: Sunday, 8 January 2012, 19:16
>Subject: Re: [R] multivariate problem
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>On Jan 8, 2012, at 3:01 AM, Iasonas Lamprianou wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>> I am not sure if this is the right place to ask this question, but I will
>> have a go. Please redirect me to a different place if this is not the right
>> one!
>>
>> I have a (relatively) simple problem which causes me some frustration
>> because I cannot find the solution. I measure ten variables (var1 to var10)
>> every day, they are all continuous (linear) and most of them are correlated.
>> Some days, for any reason, the relationship between these variables may
>> change. They are still correlated, but their correlation may change slightly
>> but practically this is important. Or, one of the variables may increase its
>> value significantly suddenly and keep this high value for a few days and
>> then come back to the normal level. I am using R. Is there any function I
>> can use to help me identify these strange days when the relationship between
>> these variables changes? For example, if DayX is such a strange day, factor
>> analyzing the data before DayX and after DayX separately would give me
>> different factors (princial components). But how can I identify such a daym
>> without trial and error?
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>The zoo package has `rollapply`. You would of course be required to be much
>more specific in defining your problem than you have been so far.
>
>--David Winsemius, MD
>Heritage Laboratories
>West Hartford, CT
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