[R] weird results w/ prcomp-princomp

[Jari Oksanen]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 11:12 +0200, Alessandro Bigi wrote:
> I am doing a Principal Component Analaysis (PCA) on a 44x19 matrix.
> with
>  > princomp(x,cor=TRUE,scores=TRUE)
> and
>  > prcomp(x,scale=TRUE,center=TRUE)
> The resulted eigenv. and rotated matrix are the same (as expected), however 
> the sum of eigenvalues is lower than 19 (number of variables).
 
What about the sum of squared sdev? (Hint, the "prcomp" help page says
that the returned sdev are the square root of the eigenvalues. While
"princomp" help does not say this explicitly, it says that "sdev" are
standard deviations).

cheers, jari oksanen
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