[BioC] Percentage of Variance to be included at 3D graph of Principal Component Analysis (PCA)- made4 package

[Gerhard Thallinger]

Dear John,

> Please help me out with this regard. 'prcomp' provides Standard 
> deviation, Proportion of variance and Cumulative Proportion. How to 
> use them in calculating the percentage of variance at all three 
> PC level.

  The percentage of variance explained can be calculated as follows:

    pca <- prcomp(USArrests, scale = TRUE)
    pc1 <- round(pca$sdev[1]^2/sum(pca$sdev^2)*100,2)
    pc2 <- round(pca$sdev[2]^2/sum(pca$sdev^2)*100,2)
    etc ...

Hth 

Gerhard

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