[R] prcomp or princomp

[Thomas Petzoldt]

Ann Devitt schrieb:

> Hello, 
> is there any documentation on doing principal components analysis with R 
> besides the R manual itself which is not very informative

yes, see the reference cited on the princomp() - help page:

Venables, W. N. and B. D. Ripley (2002). Modern Applied Statistics with 
S, Springer-Verlag.

http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/MASS4/


Thomas