approxTime {simecol}

Linear Interpolation with Complete Matrices or Data Frames

Description

Return a data frame, matrix or vector which linearly interpolates data from a given matrix or data frame.

Usage

approxTime(x, xout, ...)
approxTime1(x, xout, rule = 1)

Arguments

x

a matrix or data frame with numerical values giving coordinates of points to be interpolated. The first column needs to be in ascending order and is interpreted as independent variable (e.g. time), the remaining columns are used as dependent variables.

xout

a vector (or single value for approxTime1) of independend values specifying where interpolation has to be done.

rule

an integer describing how interpolation is to take place outside the interval [min(x), max(x)]. If rule is 1 then NAs are returned for such points and if it is 2, the value at the closest data extreme is used.

...

optional parameters passed to approx.

Details

The functions can be used for linear interpolation with a complete matrix or data frame. This can be used for example in the main function of an odeModel to get input values at a specified time xout. The version approxTime1 is less flexible (only one single value for xout and only linear interpolation) but has increased performance. Both functions are faster if x is a matrix instead of a data frame.

Value

approxTime returns a matrix resp. data frame of the same structure as x containing data which interpolate the given data with respect to xout. approxTime1 is a performance optimized special version with less options than the original approx function. It returns an interpolated vector.

See Also

approxfun

Examples

inputs <- data.frame(time = 1:10, y1 = rnorm(10), y2 = rnorm(10, mean = 50))
input  <- approxTime(inputs, c(2.5, 3), rule = 2)