[R] Help on Principal Component Analysis in R

[Karim Mezhoud]

Hi error message indicates that you have non numeric value in your table/
matrix. Replace missing value by NA and add na.rm= true in your command
prcomp.
Karim
Le 14 janv. 2015 00:27, "R Help!" <emanekaf5 at gmail.com> a écrit :

> Hello!
>
> I am a beginner to R. I have read several guides, but still am stuck on
> this:
>
> I have data in an excel csv file, on which I want to run PCA.
> I'm not sure how the prcomp formula works. The help page states:
> prcomp(x, retx = TRUE, center = TRUE, scale. = FALSE,
> tol = NULL, ...)
>
> what is x referring to? I tried putting the file name for x, but i get the
> following error:
> Error in colMeans(x, na.rm = TRUE) : 'x' must be numeric
>
> what kind of numeric value do I need to put in for x?
>
> Potentially helpful information: my data sheet has around 48 columns and
> over 7000 rows. I have converted the csv file into a matrix in R.
>
> Thanks in advance for all your help.
>
> I'd appreciate step by step instructions on how to go from my csv file to a
> PCA biplot in R.
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