R help - Mar 2009 - Unscaled factanal()

I'm using R 2.8.0.

Is there a way of doing factor analysis with factanal() that keeps it 
from scaling the covariance matrix?

Apparently, even if covmat=S is used, the function effectively 
converts to a correlation matrix before doing the factor analysis.

This may be the best choice in most instances, but occasionally I'd 
like to perform the analysis directly upon the covariance matrix itself.

Thanks.
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