[R] factor analysis using Principal Component Method

[Peter Dalgaard]

Mario Alfonso Morales Rivera wrote:
> Is there any R function to perform factor analysis using Principal
> Component Method?
>
> why factanal() method  is " always "mle" " ?
>   
Because PCM is not "factor analysis" (the two methods fit different
models) and R didn't want to take part in the mislabeling (which I
believe comes from SPSS). You can do  PCM with the prcomp() and
princomp() functions.

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