On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Sigrid [iso-8859-1] Mönkebeberg wrote:
>
> I am a user of R, but I don't read current R-mail's, because I use
it
> seldom. I should solve a factor analysis, but I don't find a proper R
> function, like the function factanal in S-Plus. Does someone can tell
> me, if there exist an R-analoge- function?
Not as far as I mnow, but I am working on one (and was this afternoon).
It is planned for 1.2.1.
I am not sure tha `factanal in S-Plus' is `proper' though. One problem
is knowing *exactly* what factor analysis is and what algorithm has been
implemented. It seems to be defined by some ill-documented code of
Joreskog, based on outdated optimization methods (even when it was
written). One aim of writing optim() in R was to use it for this.
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