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

I didn't see this method shown, so if someone else is looking to do this I found that ggplot documentation suggested a technique for using the gam method that produced similar results to loess when working with small data sets.

library(ggplot2)
x <- 1:10
y <- c(2,4,6,8,7,8,14,16,18,20)

df <- data.frame(x,y)
r <- ggplot(df, aes(x = x, y = y)) + geom_smooth(method = "gam", formula = y ~ s(x, bs = "cs"))+geom_point()
r

First with the loess method and auto formula Second with the gam method with suggested formula