Thanks Bert, I did not describe the problem accurately enough.
Actually, by now, I found out that floating-point imprecision is the
reason for my confusion. The problem does not arise with the prcomp()
function but rather with my data preprocessing:
> means=apply(dev,2,mean,na.rm=T)
> means
windows 371.19100102494, 432.458908438674 etc.
linux 371.191001024941,432.458908438674 etc.
> stdev=apply(dev,2,sd,na.rm=T)
> stdev
windows 872.234567580374, 1324.05572667875 etc.
linux 872.234567580372, 1324.05572667875 etc.
Thanks!
Kamila
Berton Gunter wrote:
>Please provide better documentation to help diagnose the problem. What are
>the PC's ?
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>-- Bert Gunter
>Genentech Non-Clinical Statistics
>South San Francisco, CA
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>"The business of the statistician is to catalyze the scientific
learning
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>[mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Kamila
Naxerova
>>Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 3:12 PM
>>To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
>>Subject: [R] Different results under Windows and Linux
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>>Hi everyone,
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>>disturbingly, a PCA yields different results when I run the analysis
>>under Windows and Linux.
>>I open the same workspace (which is on an independent partition) and
>>perform the exact same function (by using the history file).
>>Interestingly, PC1 is the same, but PC2 comes out totally different.
>>
>>Thanks!
>>Kamila
>>
>>Windows:
>>platform i386-pc-mingw32
>>arch i386
>>os mingw32
>>system i386, mingw32
>>status
>>major 2
>>minor 2.1
>>year 2005
>>month 12
>>day 20
>>svn rev 36812
>>language R
>>
>>
>>Linux (Suse 10, Kernel 2.6.13-15.8-default)
>>platform i686-pc-linux-gnu
>>arch i686
>>os linux-gnu
>>system i686, linux-gnu
>>status
>>major 2
>>minor 2.1
>>year 2005
>>month 12
>>day 20
>>svn rev 36812
>>language R
>>
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