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Full_Name: Gavin Simpson Version: 2.5.0 OS: Linux (FC5) Submission from: (NULL) (128.40.33.76) Screeplots are a common plot-type used to interpret the results of various ordination methods and other techniques. A number of packages include ordination techniques not included in a standard R installation. screeplot() works for princomp and prcomp objects, but not for these other techniques as it

I want to fit something like: z = b0 + b1*x + b2*y Since x, y,and z all have measurement errors attached, the proper way to do the fit is with principal components analysis, and to use the first component (called loadings in princomp output). My dumb question is: how do I convert the princomp output to equation coefficients in the format above? I guess another dumb question would be: how about

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]]

Hi all, I have been using princomp() recently, its very useful indeed, but I have a question about how to specify the rows of data you want it to choose. I have a set of variables relating to bird characteristics and I have been using princomp to produce PC scores from these. However since I have multiple duplicate entries per individual (each bird had a varying number of chicks), I only want

Hi all, I have a difficulty to calculate the PCA scores. The PCA scores I calculated doesn't match with the scores generated by R, mypca<-princomp(mymatrix, cor=T) myscore<-as.matrix(mymatrix)%*%as.matrix(mypca$loadings) Does anybody know how the mypca$scores were calculated? Is my formula not correct? Thanks a lot! Phoebe [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi I'm missing something here but I cannot figure out what. What I can see is that the same code works when I load it via source(...) yet fails when I execute it after loading the package I have built (which includes the code. Below is a transcript of my R session. First I load the code from a file, using source(). Then I execute it fine. Then I remove the function object, I load the

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"

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

Hi all, I am using the vegan package to run a prcincipal components analysis on forest structural variables (tree density, basal area, average height, regeneration density) in R. However, I could not find out how to extract factor loadings (correlations of each variable with each pca axis), as is straightforwar in princomp. Do anyone know how to do that? Moreover, do anyone knows

hello, I am doing PCA in R using some habitat factors, and I used the function result1=rda() and result2=princomp(),then pick up scores of the result1 and result2 using scores(),but the scores are significantly different,i do not know the meaning of it. Best wishes! Cheng

hi R help group, I have installed PLS package in R and use it for princomp & prcomp commands for calculating PCA using its example file(USArrests example). But How I can use PLS for Partial least square, R square, mvrCv one more think how i can import external file in R. When I use plsr, R2, RMSEP it show error could not find function plsr, RMSEP etc. How I can calculate PLS, R2, RMSEP, PCR,

Hi, I just wonder if this is a rounding error by the princomp command in R. Although this does not make much sense, using a hypothetical dataset, a, a<-matrix(runif(1000),100,10) I did PCA with the princomp, and compared it with the results estimated with the eigen and the prcomp commands. And I found some differences in the results: opposite signs in the loadings; slight differences in

Hi is there a way to plot only the loadings in a biplot (with the nice arrows), and to skip the scores? thanks christoph

Last week I asked about data ellipses with rgl:::ellipse3d() with lines showing the principal axes. (The goal is a visual demonstration of PCA as a rotation of variable space to component space.) I was trying, unsuccessfully, to use princomp() to generate the PCA axes and plot them using segments3d: > > PC <- princomp(trees) > > sdev <- PC$sdev # component standard

Hello, Is there any possibility in R to see the body of the non-visible function, for example princomp? If I do : > methods(princomp) so, I get that princomp.default and princomp.formula are non-visible functions and body(princomp.default) doesnt show it. In particular, I guess I have a very nave question Id like to see how scores calculation is implemented in the function princomp.

Dear all, I'm using R 2.8.1 under Vista. I programmed a Simulation with the code enclosed at the end of the eMail. After the simulation I want to analyse the columns of the single simulation-runs, i.e. e.g. Simulation[[1]][,1] sth. like that but I cannot address these columns... Can anybody please help? Best, Thomas ############################ CODE ############################

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

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, Thanks a lot for the useful help again. I manage to get it done up to a point where I think I just need to apply some smoothing/interpolation to get denser points, to make it nice. Basically, I started from Duncen's script to visualize and make the clipping along a plane at a slice. Then I map my data points' values to a color palette and just plot them as points on this plane.

... I checked and Brian and I are both right (see bottom for prior mail exchange). Let me explain: ============================================================= 1. Indeed, in principle, princomp allows data matrices with are wider than high. Example: > x1 [,1] [,2] [,3] [,4] [1,] 1 1 2 2 [2,] 1 1 2 2 > princomp(x1) Call: princomp(x = x1) Standard deviations: