I have no idea what you mean by this. prcomp works on a matrix, which has
two dimensions, and what you mean by `dimensionality of the data' in PCA
depends on whether you are doing R mode or Q mode PCA.
Have you read the references on the help page?
On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 clock@twibright.com wrote:
> help(prcomp) documentation doesn't say that dimensionality of the data
treated
> is number of columns of the matrix. I suggest this to be added somewhere
near
> the description of the matrix argument 'x'.
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