How to fit a smooth curve to my data in R?

Question

I\'m trying to draw a smooth curve in R. I have the following simple toy data:

> x
 [1]  1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9 10
> y
 [1]  2  4  6  8         


        

Answer 1

In order to get it REALLY smoooth...

x <- 1:10
y <- c(2,4,6,8,7,8,14,16,18,20)
lo <- loess(y~x)
plot(x,y)
xl <- seq(min(x),max(x), (max(x) - min(x))/1000)
lines(xl, predict(lo,xl), col='red', lwd=2)

This style interpolates lots of extra points and gets you a curve that is very smooth. It also appears to be the the approach that ggplot takes. If the standard level of smoothness is fine you can just use.

scatter.smooth(x, y)