Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components

2022-10-13 Thread John C Nash
In this case the positive values will become negative and the negative > > values > > positive. > > Add an if test to selectively rotate based on the value of a single test > > element in x > > (as in x[3,2]). > > > > In debugging or trouble shooting setting seed is us

Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components

2022-10-13 Thread Ashim Kapoor
gt; > Tim > > > > -Original Message----- > From: Ashim Kapoor > Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:28 AM > To: Ebert,Timothy Aaron > Cc: R Help > Subject: Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal > components > > [External Email]

Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components

2022-10-13 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
2]). In debugging or trouble shooting setting seed is useful. For actual data analysis you should not set seed, or possibly better yet use set.seed(NULL). Tim -Original Message- From: Ashim Kapoor Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2022 12:28 AM To: Ebert,Timothy Aaron Cc: R Help Subjec

Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components

2022-10-13 Thread Ivan Krylov
В Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:18:26 +0530 Ashim Kapoor пишет: > My problem is that I am building an index based on Principal > Components Analysis. > When the index is high it should indicate stress in the market. Have you considered using supervised methods, like PLS, to predict stress in the market?

Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components

2022-10-13 Thread Chris Evans
I agree with this and I'm not very sure why you feel you need the signs fixed one way: they are arbitrary and how they come out is generally a function of things in the handling of rounding as values hit the limit of the finite arithmetic in the particular program and OS and hardware on which it's

Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components

2022-10-12 Thread Ashim Kapoor
Dear Aaron, Many thanks for your reply. Please allow me to illustrate my query a bit. I take some data, throw it to prcomp and extract the x data frame from prcomp. >From ?prcomp: x: if ‘retx’ is true the value of the rotated data (the centred (and scaled if requested) data

Re: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components

2022-10-12 Thread Ebert,Timothy Aaron
Use absolute value Tim -Original Message- From: R-help On Behalf Of Ashim Kapoor Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2022 7:48 AM To: R Help Subject: [R] prcomp - arbitrary direction of the returned principal components [External Email] Dear R experts, >From ?prcomp, snip - Note: