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Hello, I am trying to complete a PCA on a set of standardized ring widths from 8 different sites (T10, T9, T8, T7, T6, T5, T3, and T2). The following is a small portion of my data: T10 T9 T8 T7 T6 T5 T3 T2 1.33738 0.92669 0.91146 0.98922 0.9308 0.88201 0.92287 0.91775 0.82181 1.05319 0.92908 0.97971 0.95165 0.98029 1.14048 0.77803 0.88294 0.96413 0.90893 0.87957 0.9961 0.74926 0.71394 0.70877

hi, I have two questions: #first (SPSS vs. R): I just compared the output of different PCA routines in R (pca, prcomp, princomp) with results from SPSS. the loadings of the variables differ vastly! in SPSS the variables load constantly higher than in R. I made sure that both progr. use the correlation matrix as basis. I found the same problem with rotated values (varimax rotation and rtex=T

Hi all, I am using the vegan package to run a prcincipal components analysis on forest structural variables (tree density, basal area, average height, regeneration density) in R. However, I could not find out how to extract factor loadings (correlations of each variable with each pca axis), as is straightforwar in princomp. Do anyone know how to do that? Moreover, do anyone knows

Hello all, I have performed PCA on stacked wind vector data for 20 different spatial locations. In this case I therefore am in effect working out a PCA for 40 different stations (2 paired pieces of information [ie u and v vector information] for each station), so have 40 PCs. In my previous PCA (for none vector data) i have plotted the PC loadings onto a map of the area of concern, and would

Hi, The help file on princomp says that 'The signs of the columns of the loadings and scores are arbitrary, and so may differ between differnt programs for PCA, and even between different builds of R'. Does anyone know 1. Whether this applys to all functions like svd, eigen ... etc? 2. During a leave-one-out cross step, I notice the loadings also change sige when a different

Hi, I was wondering if there is a way of plotting smoothed contours of PCA loadings onto a map. At the moment I have the loadings plotted as positive/negative (red/blue) scaled circles centred around where the physical stations are on a map - but I was wondering if there is a nicer way of plotting this data, perhaps as contours of "regions of influence" or somesuch? Any suggestions

Hi R-community, I am doing a PCA and I need plots for different combinations of axes (e.g., PC1 vs PC3, and PC2 vs PC3) with the arrows indicating the loadings of each variables. What I need is exactly what I get using biplot (pca.object) but for other axes. I have plotted PC2 and 3 using the scores of the cases, but I don't get the arrows proportional to the loadings of each variables on

Dear all I'm unable to find an example of extracting the rotated scores of a principal components analysis. I can do this easily for the un-rotated version. data(mtcars) .PC <- princomp(~am+carb+cyl+disp+drat+gear+hp+mpg, cor=TRUE, data=mtcars) unclass(loadings(.PC)) # component loadings summary(.PC) # proportions of variance mtcars$PC1 <- .PC$scores[,1] # extract un-rotated scores of

Dear Folks I need to rotate PCA loadings and scores using R. I have run a pca using princomp and I have rotated PCA results with varimax. Using varimax R gives me back just rotated PC loadings without rotated PC scores. Does anybody know how I can obtain/calculate rotated PC scores with R? Your kindly help is appreciated in advance Francesca [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I'm trying to perform a Principal Component Analysis on meteorological data with 10 predictors. I use the library pcaMethods to obtain a lot of information (loadings, scores, mean, standard deviation, etc). How can I obtain the scores (new PC variables) for new values of weather predictors using the results of PCA analysis (loadings, mean value, standard deviation) and without

After doing a PCA using princomp, how do you view how much each component contributes to variance in the dataset. I'm still quite new to the theory of PCA - I have a little idea about eigenvectors and eigenvalues (these determine the variance explained?). Are the eigenvalues related to loadings in R? Thanks, Paul -- View this message in context:

Can't make sense of calculated results and hope I'll find help here. I've collected answers from about 600 persons concerning three variables. I hypothesise those three variables to be components (or indicators) of one latent factor. In order to reduce data (vars), I had the following idea: Calculate the factor underlying these three vars. Use the loadings and the original var

Hi!! I'm having trouble selecting 10 out of 41 attributes of the KDD data set. In order to identify the components with the higher variance I'm using princomp. the result i get for summary(pca1) is: Comp.1 Comp.2 Comp.3 Comp.4 Comp.5 Comp.6 Comp.7 Comp.8 Comp.9

Hi all, I have a difficulty to calculate the PCA scores. The PCA scores I calculated doesn't match with the scores generated by R, mypca<-princomp(mymatrix, cor=T) myscore<-as.matrix(mymatrix)%*%as.matrix(mypca$loadings) Does anybody know how the mypca$scores were calculated? Is my formula not correct? Thanks a lot! Phoebe [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi everyone, I am trying to get the factor score for each individual case from a principal component analysis, as I understand, both princomp() and prcomp() can not produce this factor score, the principal() in psych package has this option: scores=T, but after running the code, I could not figure out how to show the factor score results. Here is my code, could anyone give me some advice please?

I start a clean session of R 1.9.1 on Windows and I run the following code: > library(MASS) > data(painters) > pca.painters <- princomp(painters[ ,1:4]) > loadings(pca.painters) Loadings: Comp.1 Comp.2 Comp.3 Comp.4 Composition 0.484 -0.376 0.784 -0.101 Drawing 0.424 0.187 -0.280 -0.841 Colour -0.381 -0.845 -0.211 -0.310 Expression 0.664 -0.330 -0.513

In comparing the results of princomp and prcomp I find: 1. The reported standard deviations are similar but about 1% from each other, which seems well above round-off error. 2. princomp returns what I understand are variances and cumulative variances accounted for by each principal component which are all equal. "SS loadings" is always 1. 3. Same happens

A bit of a newbee to R and factor rotation I am trying to understand factor rotations and their implementation in R, particularly the GPArotation library. I have tried to reproduce some of the examples that I have found, e.g., I have taken the values from Jacksons example in "Oblimin Rotation", Encyclopedia of Biostatistics

Hi- I'm trying to make my PCA (princomp) colored. In my csv excel sheet, I have the first column numbered according to the groupings I want to assign to the PCA. I've played around with trying to set this first column as the color vector, but haven't had any luck. Any suggestions? Thanks, Hillary [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Please could someone point me in the right direction as I appear to be having a total mental block with fairly basic PCA problem! I have a large dataframe where rows represent independent observations and columns are variables. I am wanting to perform PCA sequentially on blocks of nrows at a time and produce a graphical output of the loadings for the first 2 EOFs for each variable. I'm sure