<<insert bug report here>> This is a CRITICAL bug!!! I have verified it in R 2.8.1 for mac and for windows. The problem is with loess degree=0 smoothing. For example, try the following:
x <- 1:100 y <- rnorm(100) plot(x, y) lines(predict(loess(y ~ x, degree=0, span=0.5))) This is obviously wrong. R 2.8 --please do not edit the information below-- Version: platform = i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 arch = i386 os = darwin8.11.1 system = i386, darwin8.11.1 status = major = 2 minor = 8.1 year = 2008 month = 12 day = 22 svn rev = 47281 language = R version.string = R version 2.8.1 (2008-12-22) GUI: R-GUI 1.27 (5301) Locale: en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8 Search Path: .GlobalEnv, tools:RGUI, package:stats, package:graphics, package:grDevices, package:utils, package:datasets, package:Rutils, package:methods, Autoloads, package:base ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel