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

You could use RcppRoll for very quick moving averages written in C++. Just call the roll_mean function. Docs can be found here.

Otherwise, this (slower) for loop should do the trick:

ma <- function(arr, n=15){
  res = arr
  for(i in n:length(arr)){
    res[i] = mean(arr[(i-n):i])
  }
  res
}