On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 06:43 -0700, guy33 wrote: > Hey all, > > I can't seem to get the princurve package to produce correct results, even > in the simplest cases. For example, if you just generate a 1 period > noiseless sine wave, and ask for the principal curve and plot, the returned > curve is clearly wrong (doesn't follow the sine wave). Here's my code: > > library(princurve) > x <- runif(1000,0,2*pi); x <- cbind(x/(2*pi), sin(x)) > fit1 <- principal.curve(x, plot = TRUE) > > Anyone have any suggestions? If you run this code, do you get the correct > principal curve?
How about specifying some useful starting points? fit1 <- principal.curve(x, plot = TRUE, trace = TRUE, maxit = 100, start = cbind(sort(x[,1]), rep(1, nrow(x)))) And we need a few more iterations before convergence here. Starting from the first principal component for example might give useful starting points. HTH G > Any help would be really appreciated! > -guy33 > > -- > View this message in context: > http://r.789695.n4.nabble.com/Problem-with-Princurve-tp3535721p3535721.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. -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Dr. Gavin Simpson [t] +44 (0)20 7679 0522 ECRC, UCL Geography, [f] +44 (0)20 7679 0565 Pearson Building, [e] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk Gower Street, London [w] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ UK. WC1E 6BT. [w] http://www.freshwaters.org.uk %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% ______________________________________________ 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.