R help - Oct 2003 - prcomp or princomp

Hello, 
is there any documentation on doing principal components analysis with R 
besides the R manual itself which is not very informative
Thank you
Ann

Ann Devitt schrieb:
> Hello, 
> is there any documentation on doing principal components analysis with R 
> besides the R manual itself which is not very informative
yes, see the reference cited on the princomp() - help page:

Venables, W. N. and B. D. Ripley (2002). Modern Applied Statistics with 
S, Springer-Verlag.

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/


Thomas

Ann  -

Some useful references are given in the help for each function.
Please DO READ the help.

-  tom blackwell  -  u michigan medical school  -  ann arbor  -

On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ann Devitt wrote:
> Hello,
> is there any documentation on doing principal components analysis with R
> besides the R manual itself which is not very informative
> Thank you
> Ann

Ann Devitt wrote:
> Hello, 
> is there any documentation on doing principal components analysis with R 
> besides the R manual itself which is not very informative
> Thank you
> Ann

Have a look into the References given in ?prcomp and ?princomp.

Uwe Ligges