[R] Strange behaviour with the Homals Package

Dear R users and experts, I am using Homals to perform categorical PCA on some survey data. The documentation is a bit obscure, however, I followed the examples. X is a matrix with ordinal 1-5 Likert scale entries on 24 questions from about 2500 respondents. So I run X.nlpc = homals(X, rank =

[R] Strange behaviour with the Homals Package

Dear R users and experts, I am using Homals to perform categorical PCA on some survey data. The documentation is a bit obscure, however, I followed the examples. X is a matrix with ordinal 1-5 Likert scale entries on 24 questions from about 2500 respondents. So I run X.nlpc = homals(X, rank =