find_peaks: Find peaks of a signal

In ravetools: Signal and Image Processing Toolbox for Analyzing Intracranial Electroencephalography Data

Find peaks of a signal

Description

Find peaks of a signal

Usage

find_peaks(x, min_val = NA, min_distance = 4, min_width = 2)

Arguments

x	a numeric vector without missing values
min_val	find peaks that are greater than this value
min_distance	merge peaks that are less than min_distance time-points away
min_width	search radius (time-points) on whether the peak is "local"; this is for seasonal oscillations.

Value

A list of peak index (1-based) and the corresponding value.

Examples

# Basic example
x <- sin(seq(0, 10, 0.01)) + rnorm(1001) * 0.1

peaks <- find_peaks(x)

plot(x, type = 'l')
abline(v = peaks$index, col = 'red')

# merge peaks that are close
peaks <- find_peaks(x, min_distance = 400)

plot(x, type = 'l')
abline(v = peaks$index, col = 'red')

# with or without min_width
x <- c(0, 1, 0.5, 0.9, 0.2, 0.8, 0.2, 0.75, 0)

# without min_width
peaks <- find_peaks(x, min_width = 0)
plot(x, type = 'l')
abline(v = peaks$index, col = 'red')


# with min_width=2: t=4 is greater than t=6
peaks <- find_peaks(x, min_width = 2)
plot(x, type = 'l')
abline(v = peaks$index, col = 'red')

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