Richard,

There's the corresp() function in library(MASS)
and Fionn Murtagh's code to go with his correspondence analysis
book is available over the web.

This is very common practice with R books.

While playing with the data, I was struck by two prominent
lines I kept seeing:
table(loc_written)
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
2 3 3 8 1 7 3 3
       ^   ^

I don't suppose it has any significance at all for your results,
but I wonder why the loc_written data were so clumpy.

That 8 caught my eye, it should be 7 (a typo).
I checked the other numbers and they are correct.

What this is saying is that developers don't have a clue how many lines
of code they have read/written (see extract of question below).
In places they are not even consistent and there is a poor correlation
with experience (0s indicate no answer given, which should really be
NA).

-----------------------
How many lines of code would you estimate you have \fBwritten\fR in
different languages over your career:
.RS
.IP i)
50,000
.IP ii)
75,000
.IP iii)
100,000
.IP iv)
150,000
.IP v)
200,000
.IP vi)
275,000
.IP vii)
350,000+
.RE
.IP b)
How many lines of code would you estimate you have \fBread\fR in
different languages over your career:
.RS
.IP i)
75,000
.IP ii)
100,000
.IP iii)
150,000
.IP iv)
200,000
.IP v)
300,000
.IP vi)
500,000
.IP vii)
800,000+



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