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Dear Users, I ran factor analysis using R and SAS. However, I had different outputs from R and SAS. Why they provide different outputs? Especially, the factor loadings are different. I did real dataset(n=264), however, I had an extremely different from R and SAS. Why this things happened? Which software is correct on? Thanks in advance, - TY #R code with example data # A little

I've read through many postings about principle component analysis in the R-help archives, but haven't been able to piece together the information I need. I'd like to recreate an SPSS-like experience of factor analysis using R. Here's what SPSS produces: 1. Scatterplots of all possible variable pairs, with regression lines. xyplot(my.dataframe) is perfect but for the lack of

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

--=-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 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

Dear R Helper, I am writing because I seek to perform a varimax rotation on my Principal Components Analysis (PCA) solution. (I have been performing PCA's using the eigen command in R.) If you can tell me how to perform this rotation when I use the eigen command (or the princomp command) I would be thrilled. Thanks so much! Wendy Treynor Ann Arbor, MI USA

Hi, I am using R to do a principal components analysis for a class which is generally using SPSS - so some of my question relates to SPSS output (and this might not be the right place). I have scoured the mailing list and the web but can't get a feel for this. It is annoying because they will be marking to the SPSS output. Basically I'm getting different values for the component

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

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

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

Hi All, There were lot of diffrences in the R and SPSS results for Exploratory Factor Analysis.why is it so ?I used standard factor analysis functions like:-- factanal(m, factors=3, rotation="varimax") princomp(m, cor = FALSE, scores = TRUE, subset = rep(TRUE, nrow(as.matrix(m)))) print(summary(princomp(m, cor=TRUE),loadings = TRUE, cutoff = 0.2), digits = 2) prcomp(m, scale = TRUE)

Dear expe-R-ts, I try some test data for a factorAnalysis (resp. pca) in the sense of Prof. Ripley's MASS ? 11.1, p. 330 ff., just to prepare myself for an analysis of my own empirical data using R (instead of SPSS). 1. the data. ## The test data is (from the book of Backhaus et al.: Multivariate ## Analysemethoden. Springer 2000 [9th ed.], p. 300 ff):

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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

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

Hi there! To make a good choice for the estimation of the number of usefull factors. And I'd like to plot a graph like: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bild:Parallelanalyse.jpg where I don't need the green line (random values). But with str(factanal(data, factors=10)) I cannot figure out where I can find the values for plotting. Can you please help me in this question? Thanks, Martin

Hi, I am currently trying to execute the following command: f<-factanal(factors=k$Components$nparallel,covmat=m,n.obs=2287,rotation="varimax",control=list(opt=list(method=c("BFGS")))) but keep getting the error: L-BFGS-B needs finite values of 'fn' I can't figure out what I am doing wrong here, why isn't optim being told to use BFGS instead of L-BFGS-B...

Is there a simple way to decompose the upper triangle of a correlation matrix to a linear list; For example: X Y Z X 1 2 3 Y 2 1 4 Z 3 4 1 so you get a list like: xy 2 XZ 3 YZ 4 I suspect you can do it with a matrix transformation, but that beyond me at present. Many thanks Mark _________________________ Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine,

hello, I've two questions today. 1) I'm trying to do a scree diagram, I did a Google for a specific command I could used to do so. All I could find is a screeplot. Are they the same command? 2) what command can I used to present a PC scores, eigenvectors of the PC scores, and component correlations? thanks! -- View this message in context:

Dear R-devel list members, Ben Fairbank draw it to my attention that factanal() (in the stats package) doesn't report factor correlations for oblique rotations. Looking at the source, I see that factanal also doesn't save the factor-transformation (rotation) matrix from which these correlations can be computed. I've modified the source, attached below, so that the transformation