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square

Square wave


Description

Generate a square wave of period with limits +1 and -1.

Usage

square(t, duty = 50)

Arguments

t

Time array, specified as a vector.

duty

Duty cycle, specified as a real scalar from 0 to 100. Default: 50.

Details

y <- square(t) generates a square wave with period for the elements of the time array t. square is similar to the sine function but creates a square wave with values of –1 and 1.

y <- square(t, duty) generates a square wave with specified duty cycle duty. The duty cycle is the percent of the signal period in which the square wave is positive.

ontime * 100
     duty cycle =  ----------------
                   ontime + offtime

Value

Square wave, returned as a vector.

Author(s)

Paul Kienzle.
Conversion to R by Geert van Boxtel, G.J.M.vanBoxtel@gmail.com.

Examples

## Create a vector of 100 equally spaced numbers from 0 to 3pi.
## Generate a square wave with a period of 2pi.
t <- seq(0, 3*pi, length.out = 100)
y <- square(t)
plot(t/pi, y, type="l", xlab = expression(t/pi), ylab = "")
lines (t/pi, sin(t), col = "red")

## Generate a 30 Hz square wave sampled at 1 kHz for 70 ms.
## Specify a duty cycle of 37%.
## Add white Gaussian noise with a variance of 1/100.
t <- seq(0, 0.07, 1/1e3)
y <- square(2 * pi * 30 * t, 37) + rnorm(length(t)) / 10
plot(t, y, type="l", xlab = "", ylab = "")

gsignal

Signal Processing

v0.3-1
GPL-3
Authors
Geert van Boxtel [aut, cre] (Maintainer), Tom Short [aut] (Author of 'signal' package), Paul Kienzle [aut] (Majority of the original sources), Ben Abbott [ctb], Juan Aguado [ctb], Muthiah Annamalai [ctb], Leonardo Araujo [ctb], William Asquith [ctb], David Bateman [ctb], David Billinghurst [ctb], Juan Pablo Carbajal [ctb], André Carezia [ctb], Vincent Cautaerts [ctb], Eric Chassande-Mottin [ctb], Luca Citi [ctb], Dave Cogdell [ctb], Carlo de Falco [ctb], Carne Draug [ctb], Pascal Dupuis [ctb], John W. Eaton [ctb], R.G.H Eschauzier [ctb], Andrew Fitting [ctb], Alan J. Greenberger [ctb], Mike Gross [ctb], Daniel Gunyan [ctb], Kai Habel [ctb], Kurt Hornik [ctb], Jake Janovetz [ctb], Alexander Klein [ctb], Peter V. Lanspeary [ctb], Bill Lash [ctb], Friedrich Leissh [ctb], Laurent S. Mazet [ctb], Mike Miller [ctb], Petr Mikulik [ctb], Paolo Neis [ctb], Georgios Ouzounis [ctb], Sylvain Pelissier [ctb], Francesco Potortì [ctb], Charles Praplan [ctb], Lukas F. Reichlin [ctb], Tony Richardson [ctb], Asbjorn Sabo [ctb], Thomas Sailer [ctb], Rolf Schirmacher [ctb], Rolf Schirmacher [ctb], Ivan Selesnick [ctb], Julius O. Smith III [ctb], Peter L. Soendergaard [ctb], Quentin Spencer [ctb], Doug Stewart [ctb], P. Sudeepam [ctb], Stefan van der Walt [ctb], Andreas Weber [ctb], P. Sudeepam [ctb], Andreas Weingessel [ctb]
Initial release
2021-05-02

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