You can also use parallel analysis using the scree.plot function of the "psy" package. Regards, Bruno
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bruno Falissard INSERM U669, PSIGIAM "Paris Sud Innovation Group in Adolescent Mental Health" Maison de Solenn 97 Boulevard de Port Royal 75679 Paris cedex 14, France tel : (+33) 6 81 82 70 76 fax : (+33) 1 58 41 28 43 web site : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/bruno.falissard/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Message d'origine----- De : r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] De la part de nikolay12 Envoyé : lundi 20 avril 2009 05:38 À : r-help@r-project.org Objet : [R] PCA and automatic determination of the number of components Hi all, I have relatively small dataset on which I would like to perform a PCA. I am interested about a package that would also combine a method for determining the number of components (I know there are plenty of approaches to this problem). Any suggestions about a package/function? thanks, Nick -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/PCA-and-automatic-determination-of-the-number-of-compo nents-tp23129941p23129941.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. ______________________________________________ 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.