[R] Principal Components for matrices with NA

Mark Difford mark_difford at yahoo.co.uk
Tue Feb 28 07:43:45 CET 2012


On Feb 27, 2012 at 9:30pm Joyous Fisher wrote:

> Q: is there a way to do princomp or another method where every row has at 
> least one missing column?

You have several options. Try function nipals in packages ade4 and plspm.
Also look at package pcaMethods (on Bioconductor), where you will find a
full range of options for carrying out principal component analysis using
matrices with missing values.

Regards, Mark.

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Mark Difford (Ph.D.)
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Botany Department
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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