\name{spec.taper} \alias{spec.taper} \title{Taper a Time Series by a Cosine Bell} \usage{ spec.taper(x, p = 0.1) } \arguments{ \item{x}{A univariate or multivariate time series} \item{p}{The proportion to be tapered at each end of the series, either a scalar (giving the proportion for all series) or a vector of the length of the number of series (giving the proportion for each series..} } \description{ Apply a cosine-bell taper to a time series. } \details{ The cosine-bell taper is applied to the first and last \code{p[i]} observations of time series \code{x[, i]}. } \value{ A new time series object. } \seealso{ \code{\link{spec.pgram}}, \code{\link{cpgram}} } \keyword{ts}