Mental Block with PCA of multivariate time series!
Sorry, I don't think I made myself clear enough with my initial query! I am wishing to investigate the temporal evolution of the pca: if we assume that every 50 rows of my data frame is representitive of, for instance, 1 day of data, I am hoping to automate a process whereby a pca is performed on every 50 rows of data and the loading for PC1 and PC2 for each variable (i.e. each column) is represented as a point on a plot - so a years' data will be represented as two lines (representing PC1 and PC2) on a time series plot for each variable. Laura Quinn Institute of Atmospheric Science School of Earth and Environment University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT tel: +44 113 343 1596 fax: +44 113 343 6716 mail: laura at env.leeds.ac.uk
On Mon, 16 May 2005, Gavin Simpson wrote:
Laura Quinn wrote:
Please could someone point me in the right direction as I appear to be having a total mental block with fairly basic PCA problem! I have a large dataframe where rows represent independent observations and columns are variables. I am wanting to perform PCA sequentially on blocks of nrows at a time and produce a graphical output of the loadings for the first 2 EOFs for each variable. I'm sure I've performed a very similar routine in the past, but the method is currently escaping me. Any help gratefully received!
Hi Laura, data(iris) iris.dat <- iris[,1:4] pca.1 <- prcomp(iris.dat[1:50, ], scale = TRUE) pca.2 <- prcomp(iris.dat[51:100, ], scale = TRUE) pca.3 <- prcomp(iris.dat[100:150, ], scale = TRUE) biplot(pca.1) etc... There is a better way of subsetting this data set as the 5th col of iris is a factor and we could use the subset argument to prcomp to do the subsetting without having to know that there are 50 rows per species. Take a look at that argument if you have a variable that defines the blocks for you. Is this what you were after? All the best, Gav -- %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~% Gavin Simpson [T] +44 (0)20 7679 5522 ENSIS Research Fellow [F] +44 (0)20 7679 7565 ENSIS Ltd. & ECRC [E] gavin.simpsonATNOSPAMucl.ac.uk UCL Department of Geography [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/cv/ 26 Bedford Way [W] http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfagls/ London. WC1H 0AP. %~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%~%