[R] How to plot PCA output?

[Jessica Streicher]

That depends on what you want to plot there. Basically, you could just use plot() with pcaResult$x. You might need to define which PCs you want to plot there though.

pcaResult<-prcomp(iris[,1:4])
plot(pcaResult$x) # gives the first 2 PCs
plot(pcaResult$x[,2:3]) #gives the second vs the 3rd PC

or if you want to see more you can use pairs()

pairs(pcaResult$x)

if you want things colored, theres the col parameter that works for both functions:

pairs(pcaResult$x,col=iris[,5])

Does this help?

Am 07.05.2012 um 12:22 schrieb Christian Cole:

> I have a decent sized matrix (36 x 11,000) that I have preformed a PCA on
> with prcomp(), but due to the large number of variables I can't plot the
> result with biplot(). How else can I plot the PCA output?
> 
> I tried posting this before, but got no responses so I'm trying again.
> Surely this is a common problem, but  I can't find a solution with google?
> 
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