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\name{dtw-package}
\alias{dtw-package}
\docType{package}
\title{
Dynamic Time Warp algorithms in R
}
\description{
Dynamic Time Warp: find the optimal alignment between two time series.
}
\details{
\tabular{ll}{
Package: \tab dtw \cr
Type: \tab Package \cr
Version: \tab 1.15 \cr
Date: \tab 2012-8-22 \cr
License: \tab GPL-2 \cr
}
Comprehensive implementation of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) algorithms in
R.
The basic DTW algorithm computes the time axis stretch which optimally
maps one timeseries (query) onto another (reference); it outputs the
remaining cumulative distance between the two. DTW is widely used
e.g. for classification and clustering tasks in econometrics,
chemometrics and general timeseries mining.
The R implementation in dtw provides:
\itemize{
\item arbitrary windowing functions (global constraints), eg. the Sakoe-Chiba band; see \code{\link{dtwWindowingFunctions}}
\item arbitrary transition types (also known as step patterns, slope constraints, local constraints, or DP-recursion rules). This includes dozens of well-known types; see \code{\link{stepPattern}}:
\itemize{
\item all step patterns classified by Rabiner-Juang, Sakoe-Chiba, and Rabiner-Myers;
\item symmetric and asymmetric;
\item Rabiner's smoothed variants;
\item arbitrary, user-defined slope constraints
}
\item partial matches: open-begin, open-end, substring matches
\item proper, pattern-dependent, normalization (exact average distance per step)
\item the Minimum Variance Matching (MVM) algorithm (Latecki et al.)
}
Multivariate timeseries can be aligned with arbitrary local distance
definitions, leveraging the \code{\link[proxy]{dist}} function of
package \pkg{proxy}. DTW itself becomes a distance function with the
dist semantics.
In addition to computing alignments, the package provides:
\itemize{
\item methods for plotting alignments and warping functions in several classic styles (see plot gallery);
\item graphical representation of step patterns;
\item functions for applying a warping function, either direct or inverse;
\item both fast native (C) and interpreted (R) cores.
}
Please see documentation for function \code{\link{dtw}}, which is the
main entry point to the package.
If you use this software, please cite it according to
\code{citation("dtw")}. The package home page is at
\url{http://dtw.r-forge.r-project.org}.
To get the latest stable version from CRAN, use
\code{install.packages("dtw")}. To get the development version
(possibly unstable), use
\code{install.packages("dtw",repos="http://r-forge.r-project.org")}.
}
\author{
Toni Giorgino, Copyright (c) 2007-2012
Istituto di Ingegneria Biomedica (ISIB-CNR)
National Research Council of Italy
Maintainer: toni.giorgino@gmail.com
}
\seealso{ \code{\link{dtw}} for the main entry point to the package;
\code{\link{dtwWindowingFunctions}} for global constraints;
\code{\link{stepPattern}} for local constraints;
\code{\link[analogue]{distance}}, \code{\link{outer}} for
building a local cost matrix with multivariate
timeseries and custom distance functions. }
\references{
Toni Giorgino. \emph{Computing and Visualizing Dynamic Time Warping
Alignments in R: The dtw Package.} Journal of Statistical
Software, 31(7), 1-24. \url{http://www.jstatsoft.org/v31/i07/}
Rabiner, L. R., & Juang, B.-H. (1993). Chapter 4 in
\emph{Fundamentals of speech
recognition.} Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall.
}
\examples{
library(dtw);
## demo(dtw);
}
\keyword{ package }
\keyword{ ts }