similar to: Accessing the (first or more) principal component with princomp or prcomp

Dear all, perhaps I am using princomp.formula and prcomp.formula in a way that is not documented to work, but then the documentation just says: formula: a formula with no response variable. Thus, to avoid a lot of typing, it would be nice if one could use '.' and '-' in the formula, e.g. > library(DAAG) > res <- prcomp(~ . - case - site - Pop - sex, possum)

According to R help: princomp() uses eigenvalues of covariance data. prcomp() uses the SVD method. yet when I run the (eg., USArrests) data example and compare with my own "hand-written" versions of PCA I get what looks like the opposite. Example: comparing the variances I see: Using prcomp(USArrests) ------------------------------------- Standard deviations: [1] 83.732400 14.212402

Some webpage has described prcomp and princomp, but I am still not quite sure what the major difference between them is. Can they be used interchangeably? In help, it says 'princomp' only handles so-called R-mode PCA, that is feature extraction of variables. If a data matrix is supplied (possibly via a formula) it is required that there are at least as many units as

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

When I look through archives at https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2003-October/040525.html I see this: Liaw, Andy wrote: >In the `Detail' section of ?princomp: > >princomp only handles so-called Q-mode PCA, that is feature extraction of >variables. If a data matrix is supplied (possibly via a formula) it is >required that there are at least as many units as variables. For

Hi R People: When performing PCA, should I use prcomp, princomp or fast.prcomp, please? thanks. Erin -- Erin Hodgess Associate Professor Department of Computer and Mathematical Sciences University of Houston - Downtown mailto: erinm.hodgess at gmail.com

Hello fellow Rers, I have a no-doubt simple question which is turning into a headache so would be grateful for any help. I want to do a principal components analysis directly on a correlation matrix object rather than inputting the raw data (and specifying cor = TRUE or the like). The reason behind this is I need to use polychoric correlation coefficients calculated with John Fox's

Dear listserv, I am trying to perform a principal components analysis and create an output table of the eigenvalues for the dependent variables. What I want is to see which variables are driving each principal components axis, so I can make statements like, "PC1 mostly refers to seed size" or something like that. For instance, if I try the example from ?prcomp > prcomp(USArrests,

I do not understand, from a PCA point of view, the option center=F of prcomp() According to the help page, the calculation in prcomp() "is done by a singular value decomposition of the (centered and possibly scaled) data matrix, not by using eigen on the covariance matrix" (as it's done by princomp()) . "This is generally the preferred method for numerical accuracy"

Dear All, It might be a simple question. But I could not find the answer from function “prcomp” or “princomp”. Does anyone know what are the codes to get coefficient and scores of Principal component analysis in R? Your reply will be appreciated! Best Zunqiu [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi, I am a new user of R, and apologize beforehand for the simplistic nature of this question: I ran prcomp on a data set with 4 variables, and am able to see the summary information (variance contribution, rotation matrix, plots, etc.). However, I'd also like to extract the actual values of the principal components (PC) corresponding to each sample. I've looked in the help, on-line

As of R 1.7.0, princomp no longer accept matrices with more coloumns than rows. I'm curious: Why was this decision made? I work a lot with data where more coloumns than rows is more of a rule than an exception (for instance spectroscopic data). To me, princomp have two advantages above prcomp: 1) It has a predict method, and 2) it has a biplot method. A biplot method shouldn't be too

Hi everyone, I am relatively new to R, and I need to perform the principal components analysis of a data matrix. I know that there are a bunch of methods to do it (dudi.pca, princomp, prcomp...) but I have not managed to find a method that can return the residuals obtained by retaining X principal components of the original data, as this MATLAB function can do: http://is.gd/6WeUFF Suggestions?

Dear R buddies, I’m trying to run Principal Component Analysis, package princomp: http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/princomp.html. My question is: why do I get different results with pca = princomp (x, cor = TRUE) and pca = princomp (x, cor = FALSE) even when I standardize variables in my matrix? Best regards, Blaž Simčič [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, I have a large data set that has more columns than rows (sample data below). I am trying to perform a partitioning cluster analysis and then plot that using pca. I have tried using CLUSPLOT(), but that only allows for 'princomp' where I need 'prcomp' as I do not want to reduce my columns. Is there a way to edit the CLUSPLOT() code to use 'prcomp', please? #

Dear friends, I am beginning to use R software in my academic research and I'm having some problems regarding the use of PCA. I have a table with 24445 rows and 9 columns, and I used the function prcomp() to do the analysis. Working with an example?: x<-read.table("test.txt", header=T) row.names(x)<-x[,1] x<-x[,-1] require(stats) pca<-prcomp(x, scale=T) names(pca) ##

Hello folks, it may be regarded as a user error to scale() your data prior to prcomp() instead of using its 'scale.' argument. However, it is a user thing that may happen and sounds a legitimate thing to do, but in that case predict() with 'newdata' can give wrong results: x <- scale(USArrests) sol <- prcomp(x) all.equal(predict(sol), predict(sol, newdata=x)) ## [1]

[Re-directing to R-devel, as I think this needs changes to the code.] Can I suggest a modification to stats:predict.princomp so that it will check for column (variable) names? In src/library/stats/R/princomp-add.R, insert the following after line 4: if (!is.null(cn <- names(object$center))) newdata <- newdata[, cn] Now Dana's example looks like: > predict(pca1, frz) Error in

Hello, Can you get eigenvalues in addition to eigevectors using prcomp? If so how? I am unable to use princomp due to small sample sizes. Thank you in advance for your help! Rebecca Young -- Rebecca Young Graduate Student Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Badyaev Lab University of Arizona 1041 E Lowell Tucson, AZ 85721-0088 Office: 425BSW rlyoung at email.arizona.edu (520) 621-4005

Hi, Can anyone explain me the differences in Q and R mode in Principal Component Analysis, as performed by prcomp and princom respectively. Regards L?vio Cipriano