Correlplot (version 1.0-2)

fit_angles: Fit angles to a correlation matrix

Description

fit_angles finds a set of optimal angles for representing a particular correlation matrix by angles between vectors

Usage

fit_angles(R, ifun = "cos", ntrials = 10, verbose = FALSE)

Arguments

R

a correlation matrix.

ifun

an angle interpretation function (cosine, by default).

ntrials

number of trials for optimization routine nlminb

verbose

be silent (FALSE), or produce more output (TRUE)

Value

References

Trosset, M.W. (2005) Visualizing correlation. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics 14(1), pp. 1--19

See Also

nlminb

Examples

X <- matrix(rnorm(90),ncol=3)
R <- cor(X)
angles <- fit_angles(R)
print(angles)