[R] biplot.princomp - changing score labels

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Axel Strauß wrote:

> OK, the one thing I figured out:
> Is should be like:
> biplot(test.pca, cex=c(2,1), col=c("red","green")...
> to change size, colours etc separately. But I still don't know how change 
> lables of observations to symbols properly.

That's not part of the design of the function, so just make a copy and 
edit to meet your fancies.

The designer of biplot.princomp.

>
> Tipps? Thanks again,
> Axel
>> Dear R helpers,
>> 
>> When producing a PCA biplot, vectors of environmental variables (as red 
>> arrows with labels) and scores of the observations (black labels 
>> (observation names)) are plotted by default. How can I change the graphical 
>> output? Let's say I would like that the scores are plottet only as symbols 
>> and not text. The only solution I found was this post in the help archive
>> http://tolstoy.newcastle.edu.au/R/e2/help/06/12/7298.html
>> suggesting "cheating" like:
>> >biplot(test.pca, xlabs=c("0","0","0","0","0","0...
>> and using letters instead of symbols.
>> This works somehow, but I am still not able the change e.g. the colour or 
>> size of only the scores. Whatever I try to do with "col=...", "cex=..." and 
>> so on changes either all labels in the plot or none. Can someone tell me 
>> what is the trick to only modify either the environmental variables or the 
>> scores? Also e.g. the type of the arrow?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Axel

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