[R] How to do varimax rotation for principal component based factor analysis, any packages?

ronggui ronggui.huang at gmail.com
Sun Apr 16 12:17:20 CEST 2006


I don't think the result from _princomp _ should be rotated.
The definition of "principal components" explicitly indicates that the
result is to have axes that are uncorrelated and line up in directions
of maximum variance.

If I am wrong,I hope some one else to point it out.

2006/4/16, Yong Wang <wangyong1 at gmail.com>:
> Dear R users
> the factanal pacakge is always MLE, which package can do varimax
> rotation with the results from princomp ?
>
> thank you
>
> yong
>
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