[R] Principal component analysis with EQUAMAX rotation

[William Revelle]

Dear Orvalo Augusto,
  If you are using a PC, you need to get the zip file, not the tar.gz file.

It is at http://personality-project.org/r/src/contrib/  

For Macs it is an “other repository”  (source option) at http://personality-project.org/r/

Bill






On Jun 21, 2014, at 12:36 AM, Orvalho Augusto <orvaquim at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear!
> 
> I get this error when I try to install it on my linux PC:
> root at orvaquimcism:~# R CMD INSTALL /mnt/disco/downloads/R/psych_1.4.6.20.tar.gz 
> Error in rawToChar(block[seq_len(ns)]) : 
>   embedded nul in string: '\037\x8b\b\0\0\0\0\0\0\003\xec\xbdk{\xe3Ƒ(\x9c\xaf\xc2\xf3\xf0?\xb4\xa9I\x86\x90 \x8a\0uq\xbc\x86\xf3N&\xb1\xd79\xb6ck\xc6\xde=\xab(\xfb@$$\xc1C\0024 at J\x94gy~\xfb[\xb7\xbe\0\004%\xcdxf\xe2d5\x89E\xa0\xd1]}\xab\xae\xae\xaa\xae\xae\x9aU\xb7\xa3\xab\xfd?\xfd\xf9\xc5\xf3'
> 
> My PC is:
> Xubuntu 12.04 64-bit with R version 3.1.0 (2014-04-10).
> 
> Thanks
> Orvalho
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 6:36 PM, William Revelle <lists at revelle.net> wrote:
> Dear Wagner,
>   I added the equamax rotation option to the psych package in version 1.4.6.  This was requested by Sagnik Chakravarty, with a solution by Gunter Nickel.
> 
> Unfortunately, the version on CRAN  is 1.4.5, but you can get the working prerelease of 1.4.6 (1.4.6.20)  from the alternate repository  http://personality-project.org/r/  (if using a Mac) or  http://personality-project.org/r/src/contrib/   if using a PC.
> 
> Thus,
> 
>  p3e <- principal(Thurstone,3,rotate="equamax")  #will extract the first three components and rotate them using equamax.
>  p3n <- principal(Thurstone,3,rotate="none")   #will give you the unrotated 3 component solution
>  p3v <- principal(Thurstone,3,rotate="varimax") #for the varimax solution
> 
>  factor.congruence(list(p3e,p3n,p3v))  #compares the Burt/Tucker congruence coefficients for these three solutions
> 
> 
> Let me know if this does what you want.
> 
> Bill
> 
> 
> On Jun 19, 2014, at 2:07 AM, Wagner <wagner.fab at gmx.de> wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> > I need to do a principal component analysis with EQUAMAX-rotation.
> > Unfortunately the function principal() I use normally for PCA does not offer
> > this rotation specification. I could find out that this might be possible
> > somehow with the package GPArotation but until now I could not figure out
> > how to use this in the principal component analysis.
> > Maybe someone can give an example on how to do an equamax-rotation PCA?
> > Or is there a function in another package that offers the use of
> > equamax-rotation directly?
> > Thank you for your help!
> >
> >
> >
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