similar to: loadings or summary in Principal components

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,

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

Hi. I have been looking at the PCAproj function in package pcaPP (R 2.4.1) for robust principal components, and I'm trying to interpret the results. I started with a data matrix of dimensions RxC (R is the number of rows / observations, C the number of columns / variables). PCAproj returns a list of class princomp, similar to the output of the function princomp. In a case where I can

Dear all, i wonder if there?s a command to obtain the actual values of a principal component or a factor (not as.factor, but factanal) . test=princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE) summary(test) just outputs, standard deviation, Prop of Variance and cumulative proportion of variance. test$loadings offers yet another proportion of variance scheme. why is that? Apart from that: Is there a

Full_Name: Sahotra Sarkar Version: 2.2.0 OS: Windows XP Professional Submission from: (NULL) (146.6.130.180) The following two commands should give the same results for the eigenvectors but do not (there is a sign reversal for the first one): > summary(princomp(bumpus),loading = TRUE) Importance of components: Comp.1 Comp.2 Comp.3 Comp.4 Comp.5

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:

Hello, I am trying to run a PCA in R and I cannot get the PC scores for each of the values. Using pcX <- princomp(X) then loadings(pcX) I can get a listing of the eigenvectors but not the actual PC scores for each value in the dataset. I greatly appreciate any help anyone can offer Thanks Ken

Dear all, I am trying to find the PCs of a spatial data set (single variable). I want to calculate the PCs at each Lat-Lon location. The* 'princomp'* command gives the approximate standardized data (i.e* pca$scores*), stranded deviation ..etc. I tried* 'pca$loadings'*also, but it giving value 1 all time. Then I tried manually(without using* princomb*

Hi, I run the example for princomp for R211 I got the following error for biplot > ## The variances of the variables in the > ## USArrests data vary by orders of magnitude, so scaling is appropriate > (pc.cr <http://pc.cr> <- princomp(USArrests)) # inappropriate Erreur dans cov.wt(z) : 'x' must contain finite values only > princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE) # =^=

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]]

$ R --version R 1.6.1 (2002-11-01). So I would like to perform principal components analysis on a 16X16 correlation matrix, [princomp(cov.mat=x) where x is correlation matrix], the problem is princomp complains that it is not non-negative definite. I called eigen() on the correlation matrix and found that one of the eigenvectors is close to zero & negative (-0.001832311). Is there any way

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

G'Day R users! Following an ordination using prcomp, I'd like to test which variables singnificantly contribute to a principal component. There is a method suggested by Peres-Neto and al. 2003. Ecology 84:2347-2363 called "bootstrapped eigenvector". It was asked for that in this forum in January 2005 by J?r?me Lema?tre: "1) Resample 1000 times with replacement entire

Dear all, I've used the 'prcomp' command to calculate the eigenvalues and eigenvectors of a matrix(gg). Using the command 'principal' from the 'psych' package  I've performed the same exercise. I got the same eigenvalues but different eigenvectors. Is there any reason for that difference? Below are the steps I've followed: 1. PRCOMP #defining the matrix

I have a question about princomp(mva) that I hope isn't too newbie. I used the sample data from Table 1.1 in "Manly (1986/1994) Multivariate Statistical Methods: a primer. Chapman and Hall" on sparrow body measurements. I rescaled the data to mean 0 and SD 1, and the covariance matrix is: V1 V2 V3 V4 V5 V1 1.0000000 0.7349642 0.6618119

I'm attempting to modify how biplot draws its red vectors (among other things). This is how I've started: Biplot <- function(xx, comps = c(1, 2), cex = c(.6, .4)) { ## Purpose: Makes a biplot with princomp() object to not show arrows ## ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ## Arguments: xx is an object made using princomp() ##

Hello, I have a short question about the prcomp function. First I cite the associated help page (help(prcomp)): "Value: ... SDEV the standard deviations of the principal components (i.e., the square roots of the eigenvalues of the covariance/correlation matrix, though the calculation is actually done with the singular values of the data matrix). ROTATION the matrix of variable loadings

Hi All, would appreciate an answer on this if you have a moment; Is there a function (before I try and write it !) that allows the input of a covariance or correlation matrix to calculate PCA, rather than the actual data as in princomp() Regards Glenn [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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

Hello alls, I found in the literature a technique that has been evaluated as one of the more robust to assess statistically the significance of the loadings in a PCA: bootstrapping the eigenvector (Jackson, Ecology 1993, 74: 2204-2214; Peres-Neto and al. 2003. Ecology 84:2347-2363). However, I'm not able to transform by myself the following steps into a R program, yet? Can someone could help