Calculating moving average

Question

I\'m trying to use R to calculate the moving average over a series of values in a matrix. The normal R mailing list search hasn\'t been very helpful though. There doesn\'t s

Answer 1

Or you can simply calculate it using filter, here's the function I use:

ma <- function(x, n = 5){filter(x, rep(1 / n, n), sides = 2)}

If you use dplyr, be careful to specify stats::filter in the function above.