soundgen (version 2.7.2)

findInflections: Find inflections

Description

Finds inflections in discrete time series such as pitch contours. When there are no missing values and no thresholds, this can be accomplished with a fast one-liner like which(diff(diff(x) > 0) != 0) + 1. Missing values are interpolated by repeating the first and last non-missing values at the head and tail, respectively, and by linear interpolation in the middle. Setting a threshold means that small "wiggling" no longer counts. To use an analogy with ocean waves, smoothing (low-pass filtering) removes the ripples and only leaves the slow roll, while thresholding preserves only waves that are sufficiently high, whatever their period.

Usage

findInflections(x, thres = NULL, step = NULL, plot = FALSE, main = "")

Value

Returns a vector of indices giving the location of inflections.

Arguments

x

numeric vector with or without NAs

thres

minimum vertical distance between two extrema for them to count as two independent inflections

step

distance between values in s (only needed for plotting)

plot

if TRUE, produces a simple plot

main

plot title

See Also

findPeaks

Examples

x = sin(2 * pi * (1:100) / 15) * seq(1, 5, length.out = 100)
idx_na = c(1:4, 6, 7, 14, 25, 30:36, 39, 40, 42, 45:50,
           57, 59, 62, 66, 71:79, 98)
x[idx_na] = NA
soundgen:::findInflections(x, plot = TRUE)
soundgen:::findInflections(x, thres = 5, plot = TRUE)

for (i in 1:10) {
  temp = soundgen:::getRandomWalk(len = runif(1, 10, 100), rw_range = 10,
                                  rw_smoothing = runif(1, 0, 1))
  soundgen:::findInflections(temp, thres = 1, plot = TRUE)
  invisible(readline(prompt="Press [enter] to continue"))
}