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set.seed(3)
x <- seq(0,2*pi,0.1)
z <- sin(x)
y <- z + rnorm(mean=0, sd=0.5*sd(z), n=length(x))
d <- cbind.data.frame(x,y,z)

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### GAM example using mgcv

library(mgcv)
library(ggplot2)
# fake data
n <- 50
sig <- 2
dat <- gamSim(1,n=n,scale=sig)

# P-spline smoothers (with lambda=0.6) used for x1 and x2; x3 is parametric.

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ggplot(data=cbind.data.frame(s, dat$x1), aes(x=dat$x1, y=s)) + geom_line()

# predict
newdf <- gamSim(1,n=n,scale=sig)
f <- predict(b1, newdata=newdf)

# select smoothing parameters with REML, using P-splines

b2 <- mgcv::gam(y ~ s(x1, bs='ps') + s(x2, bs='ps') + x3, data = dat, method="REML"

# select variables and smoothing parameters

b3 <- mgcv::gam(y ~ s(x0) + s(x1) + s(x2) + s(x3) , data = dat, method="REML", select

# loess smoothers with the gam package (restart R before loading gam)
library(gam)
b4 <- gam::gam(y ~ lo(x1, span=0.6) + lo(x2, span=0.6) + x3, data = dat)
summary(b4)

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