R: Scree Plots

screeplot {stats}

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Scree Plots

Description

screeplot.default plots the variances against the number of the principal component. This is also the plot method for classes "princomp" and "prcomp".

Usage

screeplot(x, ...)
## Default S3 method:
screeplot(x, npcs = min(10, length(x$sdev)),
          type = c("barplot", "lines"),
          main = deparse1(substitute(x)), ...)

Arguments

x

an object containing a sdev component, such as that returned by princomp() and prcomp().

npcs

the number of components to be plotted.

type

the type of plot. Can be abbreviated.

main, ...

graphics parameters.

References

⁠Mardia KV, Kent JT, Bibby JM (1979). Multivariate Analysis. Academic Press, London.

⁠Venables WN, Ripley BD (2002). Modern Applied Statistics with S, series Statistics and Computing. Springer, New York, NY. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-21706-2.

Examples

require(graphics)

## The variances of the variables in the
## USArrests data vary by orders of magnitude, so scaling is appropriate
(pc.cr <- princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE))  # inappropriate
screeplot(pc.cr)

fit <- princomp(covmat = Harman74.cor)
screeplot(fit)
screeplot(fit, npcs = 24, type = "lines")