See ?factanal, and ?ability.cov for a worked example.
On Fri, 12 Nov 2010, Brima wrote:
Hi all, This could be very basic. I want to do exploratory factor analysis but I don't have the data, rather I have the correlation matrix. How do I do this with just the correlation matrix? I know for principal components, I can just find the eigen values. Best regards -- View this message in context: http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Factor-analysis-tp3040618p3040618.html Sent from the R help mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
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