dtw: Dynamic Time Warping in R

The dtw package is part of CRAN, the Comprehensive R Archive Network. The R version is the reference implemenation of the algorithms.

Installation

To install the latest stable version of the package, issue the following command in the R console:

> install.packages("dtw")

Getting started

Begin from the installed documentation:

> library(dtw) 
> demo(dtw)
> ?dtw 
> ?plot.dtw

Online documentation

The package manual pages can also be browsed online.

Quickstart

## A noisy sine wave as query
idx<-seq(0,6.28,len=100);
query<-sin(idx)+runif(100)/10;

## A cosine is for template; sin and cos are offset by 25 samples
template<-cos(idx)

## Find the best match with the canonical recursion formula
library(dtw);
alignment<-dtw(query,template,keep=TRUE);

## Display the warping curve, i.e. the alignment curve
plot(alignment,type="threeway")

## Align and plot with the Rabiner-Juang type VI-c unsmoothed recursion
plot(
    dtw(query,template,keep=TRUE,
        step=rabinerJuangStepPattern(6,"c")),
    type="twoway",offset=-2);

## See the recursion relation, as formula and diagram
rabinerJuangStepPattern(6,"c")
plot(rabinerJuangStepPattern(6,"c"))

## And much more!

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