You may want to look at the documentation for the vegan package.
Hank Stevens
On Jun 22, 2004, at 2:19 PM, christophe grova wrote:


Dear R users,

I m quite a novice in using R for factor analysis and I would need some help to choose the right function.
I have a contingency table and I would like to perform a Correspondence analysis on this table, followed by a hirarchical clustering of my variables projected in on the first principal components.


Here are my question :

- what is the more appropriate function to do so ... I already tried by using the function 'corresp' in the MASS package
- it seems to work ... but how is it possible to get all the information concerning the non-centered PCA used by corresp (eigen-values, inertia, scree plot, square cos, ....)


In a second step I would like to use hirarchical clustering from the results of the correspondence analysis ...

If "Table" is my contingency table (i.e., the number of individuals seen in each case) ... I tried to implment it as follow (for the 2 first components for instance, but I would be interesting at looking to the other components ...I did not manage to get the eigen values !) :

A <- corresp(Table, nf = 2)
biplot(A)
hc <- hclust(dist(A$cscore), "ward")
plot(hc)

Is that ok ??? ... here it is exemplae using Ward method for clustering ...
I would also be interested in using method of mutual neighbors to identify the clusters ... is it possible using hclust ?


Any help would be really appreciated,

Best regards ...

Christophe

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