[R] body of non-visible function

[Prof Brian Ripley]

getS3method("princomp", "default").
getAnywhere("princomp.default")

The first of these is in the See Also of ?methods.

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Anna Oganyan wrote:

> Hello,
> Is there any possibility in R to see the body of the 
non-visible
 
> function, for
> example 
princomp
?
> If I do :
>
>> methods(princomp)
>
> so, I get that princomp.default and princomp.formula are non-visible 
> functions and
> body(princomp.default) doesnt show it.
>
> In particular, I guess I have a very naïve question&
> Id like to see how scores calculation is implemented in the function
> princomp. Because when I multiply my data matrix on the matrix of loadings
>> data.matrix %*% princomp(data.matrix, scores=T)$loadings
>
> I get different result than just doing
>
>> princomp(data.matrix, scores=T)$scores.

You have forgotten to centre your data.  It may be more helpful to look at 
the predict method.

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