News bulletin
A new book was just released: Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example using R
A french version of the FactoMineR's Rcmdr plug-in is available!
dynGraph: a new package for exploring dynamically graphical outputs is now released!
A description of FactoMineR is available in "FactoMineR: an R package for multivariate analysis", Journal of Statistical Software.
A presentation of Multiple Factor Analysis or how to handle multi-way data tables.
About FactoMineR
FactoMineR is an R package dedicated to multivariate exploratory analysis (the French way). It is developped and maintained by F. Husson*, J. Josse*, S. Lê*, from Agrocampus Rennes, and J. Mazet.
Why Use FactoMineR?
- It performs classical methods such as Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Correspondence analysis (CA), Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) as well as more advanced methods.
- It allows to add supplementary informations such as supplementary individuals and/or variables.
- It provides a geometrical point of view and a lot of graphical outputs.
- It provides a lot of helps to interpret (automatic description of the dimensions, various indicators, ...).
- It can take into account a structure on the data (structure on the variables, hierarchy on the variables, structure on the individuals).
- A GUI is available.
Installing FactoMineR and its Graphical User Interface
You have the possibility to install FactoMineR just as an usual R package or to install FactoMineR and its GUI, in order to perform multivariate analysis in a more user-friendly way.
Installing FactoMineR...
- Download the R software at the following adress: http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/.
- Download the FactoMineR package: you can download the Package from the CRAN or from this site (FactoMineR 1.14: Linux, Windows).
- Download FactoMineR in your R session by writing the following line code:
library(FactoMineR)
...and its GUI
- Open the R software.
- Copy and paste the following line code: (be careful, you have to be connected to internet):
- Download FactoMineR in your R session by writing the following line code:
- Answer "yes" to all the questions.
source("http://factominer.free.fr/install-facto.r")
Or, for the french version: source("http://factominer.free.fr/install-facto-fr.r")
Loading FactoMineR and its Graphical User Interface
FactoMineR is then included in
the R commander environment. You now beneficiate from all the
functionality proposed in the Rcmdr package and consequently have now a
very pleasant working environment.
Every time you want to realize
multivariate analysis with FactoMineR and
its GUI:
- Load FactoMineR for each new R session by typing the following line code:
- Or load FactoMineR and its GUI for each new R session by typing the following line code:
library(FactoMineR)
library(Rcmdr)