stats (version 3.3.2)

screeplot: Screeplots

Description

screeplot.default plots the variances against the number of the principal component. This is also the plot method for classes "princomp" and "prcomp".

Usage

# S3 method for default
screeplot(x, npcs = min(10, length(x$sdev)),
          type = c("barplot", "lines"),
          main = deparse(substitute(x)), …)

Arguments

x

an object containing a sdev component, such as that returned by princomp() and prcomp().

npcs

the number of components to be plotted.

type

the type of plot. Can be abbreviated.

main, …

graphics parameters.

References

Mardia, K. V., J. T. Kent and J. M. Bibby (1979). Multivariate Analysis, London: Academic Press. Venables, W. N. and B. D. Ripley (2002). Modern Applied Statistics with S, Springer-Verlag.

See Also

princomp and prcomp.

Examples

require(graphics)

## The variances of the variables in the
## USArrests data vary by orders of magnitude, so scaling is appropriate
(pc.cr <- princomp(USArrests, cor = TRUE))  # inappropriate
screeplot(pc.cr)

fit <- princomp(covmat = Harman74.cor)
screeplot(fit)
screeplot(fit, npcs = 24, type = "lines")