Full_Name: Ryszard Czerminski Version: 1.8.1 OS: GNU/Linux Submission from: (NULL) (205.181.102.120)
prcomp(..., scale = TRUE) does not work correctly: $ uname -a Linux 2.4.20-28.9bigmem #1 SMP Thu Dec 18 13:27:33 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux $ gcc --version gcc (GCC) 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-5) > a <- matrix(rnorm(6), nrow = 3) > sum((scale(a %*% svd(cov(a))$u, scale = F)[,1] - (prcomp(a, scale = F)$x)[,1])^2) [1] 2.465190e-31 > sum((scale(a %*% svd(cov(a))$u, scale = T)[,1] - (prcomp(a, scale = T)$x)[,1])^2) [1] 0.5493767 ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel