similar to: biplot.princomp - changing score labels

Hello all, I just started in on R today. I am at the point where I am trying to distinguish different groups of data (hydrochemical data) in biplot. I search and found a post about converting the sample number in biplot to a symbol like x or + "> temp <- matrix(runif(50), nrow=10) > temp.pca <- princomp(temp) > biplot(temp.pca, xlabs=c("A", "A",

Hi everyone. I performing a simple PCA using the princomp function. Then, I use the biplot function to show it. However, the function use line number to represent samples. I would like to know if there's a way to use a dot (point) instead of the line number when using the biplot function. With regards, Phil -- View this message in context:

Dear R-helpers, The vectors in my biplot are completely obscured by the ~1400 labels R is printing on my biplot. I don't really care about the labels. How can I make the biplot without the annoying labels? See attached, if that helps you see my problem. Many thanks, Mark Na

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

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

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() ##

Which is the parameter that is used to decrease the size of ylabs plotted in biplot? I tried playing with cex and cex.lab I am not getting it right pc <- princomp(USArrests) biplot(pc, xlabs = rep("", nrow(USArrests)),ylabs=(colnames(USArrests))) Thanks../Murli [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

I am doing a principle component analysis on a dataset with a lot of different variables and have constructed a biplot of the data. Unfortunately, as can be seen on the attached image, the biplot is very messy, cluttered, and hard to read. I have performed a few modifications including outlier removal from a few of the variables, which has made the plot better, however it still is too cluttered

I've tried a few things both with prcomp(), and rda() and its friends in vegan (including biplot.rda and ordiplot), but can't find a solution. I'd like to associate subsets of the points in a resulting biplot ("sites" in the rda object) with different plotting colors/text styles to emphasize certain sets of points. I can't figure out how to keep the arrows (for

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

Dear all I would like to replace labels for x in biplot() with symbols (points) that will visually illustrate different classes/groups. After an unsuccessful search through the documents and archives, I turn to the list for help - any suggestions that can point me in the right direction? Thanks Mat Vanderklift

[was sent a wrong R-help address; manually resent by MM] Hello I'am using the 'biplot' and 'biplot.pincomp' functions of the 'mva' package for my studies. The biplot represents both the observations and the variables of a matrix of multivariate data on the same plot. The observations are represented by their numbers (the line of the data matrix), but I would need to

Hi, I have a problem with making PCA plots that are readable. I would like to set different sympols instead of the numbers of my samples or their names, that I get plotted (xlabs). How is this possible? With points, i don´t seem to get the right data plotted onto the PCA plot, as I do not quite understand from where it is taken. I dont know how to plot the correct columns of the prcomp

Dear list, I'm trying to make a biplot, but instead of plotting the row number for each observation, plot a group factor. Example: prcomp(iris[,1:4]) -> PCA biplot(PCA) #this makes a nice biplot but with row names Instead of row numbers I want to plot iris[,5], which is a factor. I can do this: plot(PCA$x[,1], PCA$x[,2], type="n") text(PCA$x[,1], PCA$x[,2], labels=iris[,5],

Hi everyone, I am doing PCA with labdsv package. I was trying to create a biplot graphs in order to observe arrows related to my variables. However when I run the script for this graph, the console just keep saying: *Error in nrow(y) : element 1 is empty; the part of the args list of 'dim' being evaluated was: (x)* could please someone tell me what this means? what i am doing

Greetings, I am working on a stylometric analysis of some latin texts; one of the latest stylometric techniques involves using principal components analysis. Not being a statistician, I can't really fully rely on PCA as my primary tool, since I don't really understand the statistics behind the PCA technique. Nevertheless, the ability to use PCA and graph the results has been

Dears, I've been learning biplot (Gabriel, 1971) and I found the function 'biplot', inside of the package 'stats', useful but, a bit limited. So, I'm thinking to start a colaborative package to enhance this methods to other multivariate methods. In this way, I would like to start it, making public a new function (biplot.pca, still in development, but running) that make

Dear R-help fellows good afternoon. I am struggling in the attempt to impose some graphical conditions (changing point symbols, colors, etc) to biplot function (I am using it to visualize the results of princomp) but I can't apparently manage to change anything but the axis... and I have been browsing manuals and vignettes without finding any explicit suggestions on how to operate... Can

I'm a new user of R, and trying to display the result of a PCA data set with biplot(). Biplot() draws the projections of data points to the first two principal axis with a text level (I guess it is the name of the data points). This makes the picture very crowed. I tried to go through R documentation to figure out how to change the data point labels to a symbol, say circle, triangle or cross

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