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 ggplot2 you can do smooths in a number of ways, for example:

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point() +
  geom_smooth(method = "gam", formula = y ~ poly(x, 2)) 
ggplot(mtcars, aes(wt, mpg)) + geom_point() +
  geom_smooth(method = "loess", span = 0.3, se = FALSE)