[R] principal component analysis for class variables

[Alain Guillet]

The PCA doesn't work with class variables so the error is normal. You 
should try to work with a discriminant factorial analysis (see 
discrimin.coa in ade4).

Alain



andreiabb wrote:
> Dear Forum,
>
> I have a class variable 1 (populations A-E), and two other class variables,
> variable 2 and variable 3. What I want is to see if the combination of var 2
> and var 3, will give me a pattern that allows to distinguish populations. 
> I found several packages like ade4, with pcaiv function and factoMineR. but
> there are not working. Using the ade4 package, when I try to build the pca:
>  pca1 <- dudi.pca(D, scan = FALSE, nf = 2)
> Error in v * row.w : non-numeric argument to binary operator
>
> Does someone has suggestions? 
> Thanks,
> Andy
>   

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