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I've tried a few things both with prcomp(), and rda() and its friends in vegan (including biplot.rda and ordiplot), but can't find a solution. I'd like to associate subsets of the points in a resulting biplot ("sites" in the rda object) with different plotting colors/text styles to emphasize certain sets of points. I can't figure out how to keep the arrows (for

Dear R helpers, When producing a PCA biplot, vectors of environmental variables (as red arrows with labels) and scores of the observations (black labels (observation names)) are plotted by default. How can I change the graphical output? Let's say I would like that the scores are plottet only as symbols and not text. The only solution I found was this post in the help archive

Dear list, I'm trying to make a biplot, but instead of plotting the row number for each observation, plot a group factor. Example: prcomp(iris[,1:4]) -> PCA biplot(PCA) #this makes a nice biplot but with row names Instead of row numbers I want to plot iris[,5], which is a factor. I can do this: plot(PCA$x[,1], PCA$x[,2], type="n") text(PCA$x[,1], PCA$x[,2], labels=iris[,5],

Dear all I would like to replace labels for x in biplot() with symbols (points) that will visually illustrate different classes/groups. After an unsuccessful search through the documents and archives, I turn to the list for help - any suggestions that can point me in the right direction? Thanks Mat Vanderklift

Hi everyone. I performing a simple PCA using the princomp function. Then, I use the biplot function to show it. However, the function use line number to represent samples. I would like to know if there's a way to use a dot (point) instead of the line number when using the biplot function. With regards, Phil -- View this message in context:

I'm a new user of R, and trying to display the result of a PCA data set with biplot(). Biplot() draws the projections of data points to the first two principal axis with a text level (I guess it is the name of the data points). This makes the picture very crowed. I tried to go through R documentation to figure out how to change the data point labels to a symbol, say circle, triangle or cross

I am doing a principle component analysis on a dataset with a lot of different variables and have constructed a biplot of the data. Unfortunately, as can be seen on the attached image, the biplot is very messy, cluttered, and hard to read. I have performed a few modifications including outlier removal from a few of the variables, which has made the plot better, however it still is too cluttered

> biplot standardGeneric for "biplot" defined from package "stats" function (x, ...) standardGeneric("biplot") <environment: 0x0d4444d8> Methods may be defined for arguments: x Use showMethods("biplot") for currently available ones. > > > showMethods("biplot") Function: biplot (package stats) x="ANY"

Dears, I've been learning biplot (Gabriel, 1971) and I found the function 'biplot', inside of the package 'stats', useful but, a bit limited. So, I'm thinking to start a colaborative package to enhance this methods to other multivariate methods. In this way, I would like to start it, making public a new function (biplot.pca, still in development, but running) that make

Hi, I have a problem with making PCA plots that are readable. I would like to set different sympols instead of the numbers of my samples or their names, that I get plotted (xlabs). How is this possible? With points, i don´t seem to get the right data plotted onto the PCA plot, as I do not quite understand from where it is taken. I dont know how to plot the correct columns of the prcomp

Which is the parameter that is used to decrease the size of ylabs plotted in biplot? I tried playing with cex and cex.lab I am not getting it right pc <- princomp(USArrests) biplot(pc, xlabs = rep("", nrow(USArrests)),ylabs=(colnames(USArrests))) Thanks../Murli [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi! Is there a way to get biplot and identify to work togheter. Having the output of prcomp I would like to draw a biplot that. Instead of plotting the sample (row-names) names plots some "pch" symbols. (thats easy with xlabs) But now I would like to add using identify the names to only some of the points. I have noticed that both biplot.prcomp and biplot.default does a lot of

The script below successfully produces a biplot of the data but the 'site names' (rows) and the names of the 'response variables' (columns) are shown as simple numerals (rather than the column and row names). How might I 'enforce' the use of the row/column names used in the datafile (section of datafile shown below)? Can anyone help, please? Section of datafile sample a b

x=rmvnorm(2000, rep(0, 6), diag(c(5, rep(1,5)))) x=scale(x, center=T, scale=F) pc <- princomp(x) biplot(pc) There are a bunch of red arrows plotted, what do they mean? I knew that the first arrow labelled with "Var1" should be pointing the most varying direction of the data-set (if we think them as 2000 data points, each being a vector of size 6). I also read from

Hi everyone, I am doing PCA with labdsv package. I was trying to create a biplot graphs in order to observe arrows related to my variables. However when I run the script for this graph, the console just keep saying: *Error in nrow(y) : element 1 is empty; the part of the args list of 'dim' being evaluated was: (x)* could please someone tell me what this means? what i am doing

Dear R-helpers, The vectors in my biplot are completely obscured by the ~1400 labels R is printing on my biplot. I don't really care about the labels. How can I make the biplot without the annoying labels? See attached, if that helps you see my problem. Many thanks, Mark Na

Dear list, I want to perform a biplot, using customized titels for the x and y axis. Setting xlab="" and ylab="" resulted in an error, e.g.: > data(USArrests) > biplot(princomp(USArrests),xlab="",ylab="") Error in biplot.default(t(t(scores[, choices])/lam), t(t(x$loadings[, : length of dimnames[1] not equal to array extent > How do I

Hi Listers, I am trying to reflect a PCA biplot in the x-axis (i.e. PC1) but am not having much success. In theory I believe all I need to do is multiply the site and species scores for the PC1 by -1, which would effectively flip the biplot. I am creating a blank plot using the plot command and accessing the results from a call to rda. I then use the calls to scores to obtain separate site and

Hi everyone, I'd like to project two pcas onto one device window. I plot my first PCA: biplot(prcomp(t(cerebdevmat)), var.axes=FALSE, cex=c(1,.1), pc.biplot=TRUE) Now I'd like to project the features of another PCA onto this graph. Any suggestions? I know this is easily done in MatLab but haven't figured it out in R. Thanks, Tanya [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

[was sent a wrong R-help address; manually resent by MM] Hello I'am using the 'biplot' and 'biplot.pincomp' functions of the 'mva' package for my studies. The biplot represents both the observations and the variables of a matrix of multivariate data on the same plot. The observations are represented by their numbers (the line of the data matrix), but I would need to