R help - Jan 2013 - Extracting factors from "factanal"

Dear R users
Happy New year to all for a start. Below is some data that I ran a factor
analysis on. Using $score prints the scores for each of the three factors.
However, I would like to access those factors as variable for new
computations. How do I do that? In SPSS we just call fact1_1, fact2_1 etc..
Thanks for your suggestions. V

===========v1 <- c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,4,5,6)
v2 <- c(1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,3,4,3,3,3,4,6,5)
v3 <- c(3,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,5,4,6)
v4 <- c(3,3,4,3,3,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,5,6,4)
v5 <- c(1,1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,6,4,5)
v6 <- c(1,1,1,2,1,3,3,3,4,3,1,1,1,2,1,6,5,4)
m1 <- cbind(v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6)
factanal(m1, factors = 3,scores = "Bartlett")$scores

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Hi
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at r-project.org [mailto:r-help-bounces at r-
> project.org] On Behalf Of Virgile Capo-Chichi
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 9:33 AM
> To: R help
> Subject: [R] Extracting factors from "factanal"
> 
> Dear R users
> Happy New year to all for a start. Below is some data that I ran a
> factor analysis on. Using $score prints the scores for each of the
> three factors.
> However, I would like to access those factors as variable for new
> computations. How do I do that? In SPSS we just call fact1_1, fact2_1
> etc..
> Thanks for your suggestions. V
> 
> ===========> v1 <- c(1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,4,5,6)
> v2 <- c(1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,3,4,3,3,3,4,6,5)
> v3 <- c(3,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,5,4,6)
> v4 <- c(3,3,4,3,3,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,5,6,4)
> v5 <- c(1,1,1,1,1,3,3,3,3,3,1,1,1,1,1,6,4,5)
> v6 <- c(1,1,1,2,1,3,3,3,4,3,1,1,1,2,1,6,5,4)
> m1 <- cbind(v1,v2,v3,v4,v5,v6)
> factanal(m1, factors = 3,scores = "Bartlett")$scores
myscores <- factanal(m1, factors = 3,scores = "Bartlett")$scores
> myscores[,1]
 [1] -0.9039949 -0.8685952 -0.9082818 -1.0021975 -0.9039949 -0.7452711
 [7] -0.7098714 -0.7495580 -0.8080740 -0.7452711  0.9272282  0.9626279
[13]  0.9229413  0.8290256  0.9272282  0.4224366  1.4713902  1.8822320

or
> myscores[,"Factor1"]
 [1] -0.9039949 -0.8685952 -0.9082818 -1.0021975 -0.9039949 -0.7452711
 [7] -0.7098714 -0.7495580 -0.8080740 -0.7452711  0.9272282  0.9626279
[13]  0.9229413  0.8290256  0.9272282  0.4224366  1.4713902 
1.8822320
>
selects a factor score. myscore is a matrix so you cannot use $ notation.
However you can convert it to data frame.

Regards
Petr


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