[R] biplot from stats: 0.8 ?

Dear forum, I need to create biplot graphic. I took a look at the code of the biplot.default function from the stats package and I found that the arrows for the variables are multiplied by a coefficient of 0.8 before plotting: ... if (var.axes) arrows(0, 0, y[, 1L] * 0.8, y[, 2L] *

Re: [R] biplot from stats: 0.8 ?

Probably so that the end of the arrow does not overplot the labels. Kevin On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 10:28 AM, Martin Ivanov tra...@abv.bg wrote: Dear forum, I need to create biplot graphic. I took a look at the code of the biplot.default function from the stats package and I found that the