[R] kernlab kpca code

Steve Lianoglou mailinglist.honeypot at gmail.com
Thu Apr 26 18:10:00 CEST 2012


Hi Jessica,

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 11:59 AM, Jessica Streicher
<j.streicher at micromata.de> wrote:
> Hi!
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> how do i get to the source code of kpca or even better predict.kpca(which it tells me doesn't exist but should) ?

Probably you have to do kernlab:::predict.kpca from your R workspace,
but why not just download the source package and have at it?

http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/kernlab_0.9-14.tar.gz

HTH,
-steve

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> Now if i got that right, the @pcv attribute consists of the principal components, and for kpca, these are defined as projections of some random point x, which was transformed into the other feature space -> f(x), projected onto the actual PC (eigenvector of Covariance). This can be computed as the sum of the (eigenvectors of the Kernel matrix * the kernel function(sample_i,x))
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> Now assume i have some new points and want to project them, how can i do that with only having @pcv?
> Wouldn't i rather need the eigenvectors of K?
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