similar to: varimax and promax rotation

In some documentation for a package I am working on I have > \code{\link[stats]{varimax}} > \code{\link[stats]{promax}} The link to varimax works, but not the one to promax. Promax is an alias under \name{varimax}. This kind of link works within a package, but I'm not sure if it is suppose to work when it is a link to another package. Is this a known limitation or bug, or

Hello I seem to find only two types of rotation for the factanal function in R, the Varimax and Promax, but is it possible to run a orthogonal and oblique rotations in R? Thanks in advance Rosario

I was wondering whether the following inconsistency of the promax rotation function with the results of a promax rotation using SAS should be considered a bug in the promax function of R. Any comments will be highly appreciated. The following is a loading matrix obtained from a varimax rotation in SAS: # Factor loadings after varimax rotation x <- t(array(c(0.78107, 0.35573,

Hi, everyone, This is a little silly, but I cant figure out the algorithm behind lm.fit function used in the context of promax rotation algorithm: The promax function is: promax <- function(x, m = 4) { if(ncol(x) < 2) return(x) dn <- dimnames(x) xx <- varimax(x) x <- xx$loadings Q <- x * abs(x)^(m-1) U <- lm.fit(x, Q)$coefficients d <-

hello, subsequently to a NMDS analysis (performed with metaMDS or isoMDS) is it possible to rotate the axis through a varimax-rotation? Thanks in advance. Bernd Panassiti

Hi everyone- I have used several methods to calculate principal components rotated using the varimax procedure. This is simple enough. But I would like to calculate the % of variance explained associated with each PC before and after rotation. factanal returns the % of variance explained associated with each PC but I cannot seem to get it to change after rotation. Many thanks for your

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 am puzzeled with a differing result of princomp in R and FACTOR in SPSS. Regarding the amount of explained Variance, the two results are the same. However, the loadings differ substantially, in the unrotated as well as in the rotated form. In both cases correlation matrices are analyzed. The sums of the squared components is one in both programs. Maybe there is an obvious reason, but I

Dear R users the factanal pacakge is always MLE, which package can do varimax rotation with the results from princomp ? thank you yong

Dear R users, I have been doing rotation on Principal components analyse, with varimax function and promax. Following those changes, I cannot find now how to get the spatial evolution and the variance. Indeed, with the function princomp that has been used to get the principal components, arguments such as $scores and $sdev were available to get the spatial evolution and the variance, with

Dear R users, I have been doing some eof analysis using princomp function, then the eof results were rotated with varimax and promax functions. Those functions are working fine. However, after their uses, I cannot find how to obtain the temporal evolution and the variance of the obtain components, as varimax and promax does not have the arguments $scores and $sdev. If any body, know how to

Hello all, I've run a principal component regression using the PLS package. I then applied varimax rotation (i.e., using http://stat.ethz.ch/R-manual/R-patched/library/stats/html/varimax.html). I cannot figure out how to extract the factor loadings post-varimax. Is there a command to do this? scores(x) does not do it. Thanks and happy holidays -- View this message in context:

Full_Name: conor dolan Version: 1.4.0 OS: windows98 Submission from: (NULL) (146.50.170.247) On the basis of Lawley and Maxwell's explanation in Factor Analysis as a Statistical Method (London: Butterworth, 1971), the following line in the promax routine (library, mva): attr(z, "covariance") <- crossprod(U) should be attr(z, "covariance") <- solve(crossprod(U))

--=-hiYzUeWcRJ/+kx41aPIZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Hi, on March 10 I filed a wishlist bug report asking for the inclusion of some changes to factanal() and the associated print method. The changes were originally proposed by John Fox in 2005; they make print.factanal() display factor correlations if factanal() is called with rotation =

Hi! I am trying to analyse with R a database that I have previously analysed with SPSS. Steps with SPSS: Factorial analysis Extraction options : I select = Principal component analysis Rotation: varimax Steps with R: I have tried it with varimax function with factanal or with princomp...and the results are different of what I have with SPSS. I think that varimax function is incorporated in

I am performing a large (105 variable) factor analysis with factanal, specifying promax rotation. I kow that some loadings over 1.0 are not unsual with that rotation, but I have some as large as 1.2, which seems extreme. I am skirting the assumptions of the model by using responses on a 7-point rating scale as data; I may have to go back and compute polychoric correlations instead of product

# I have a question about how factanal is calculating the regression factor # scores based on an oblique rotation (promax) of the factors. # # As is explained in the help file, regression factor scores are # obtained as # # hat f = Lambda' Sigma^-1 x # # However, according to Harman's "Modern Factor Analysis" (e.g. second # edition, pp. 351-352) the formula is # # hat f = Phi

Hello, recently I was looking at the implementation of the "varimax" rotation procedure from the "stats" package and to me it looks quite different from the algorithm originally suggested by Kaiser in 1958. The R procedure iteratively uses singular value decompositions of some matrices whereas Kaiser proposed to iteratively compute rotation matrices between all pairs of

Hello again- Thanks to Prof. Ripley for responding to my previous question. I would like to clarify my question using sample code. I will use some sample code taken from ?prcomp Again, I would like to compare the % variance explained by each PC before and after rotation. < code follows > data(USArrests) pca = prcomp(USArrests, scale = TRUE) # proportion variance explained by each

I'm using R for PCA and? factor analysis. I want to create biplots of varimax rotated factors that color-code points by their classification. My research is on streams that are urban and rural. So, I want to color code them by this classification. If you just do a biplot from prcomp or princomp, you cannot add this color. So, I have used some code developed by a graduate student in our