Hello everyone, is there a package/packages for factor analysis, particularly PCA? thanks, Katja Katja L??ytynoja Taitoniekantie 9 A 218 40 740 Jyv??skyl?? Finland tel.+35814 608058 cell.+35850 336 0174 kaloytyn at jyu.fi
Katja Loytynoja <kaloytyn at cc.jyu.fi> writes:> Hello everyone, is there a package/packages for factor analysis, > particularly PCA?help.search("factor analysis") help.search("principal components") (Whether PCA qualifies as "factor analysis" is debatable, though...) -- O__ ---- Peter Dalgaard Blegdamsvej 3 c/ /'_ --- Dept. of Biostatistics 2200 Cph. N (*) \(*) -- University of Copenhagen Denmark Ph: (+45) 35327918 ~~~~~~~~~~ - (p.dalgaard at biostat.ku.dk) FAX: (+45) 35327907
R comes with support for factor analysis and PCA (*not* the same thing) in package stats which is normally loaded. Try help.search("factor analysis") help.search("principal components") On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Katja Loytynoja wrote:> Hello everyone, is there a package/packages for factor analysis, > particularly PCA?> PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.htmlPLEASE DO. -- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595