rk.FactorAnalysis

This R package provides a GUI to conduct principal component and factor analysis.

It is a plugin package for RKWard, a powerful GUI and IDE for R, and will only work in conjunction with RKWard. However, RKWard is free software, please check it out.

Installation

Installation via RKWard

After you installed RKWard, simply install this package like any other R package. The easiest way to get the most recent stable release is to use RKWard’s package management:

• Go to Settings -> Manage R packages and plugins... -> Install/Update/Remove R packages
• Check Show only packages providing RKWard dialogs and look at New Packages
• Check the desired package(s) and hit Apply

After you installed the package, RKWard should immediately have additional menu entries – there’s usually no need to restart the application.

Installation via GitHub

To install it directly from GitHub, you can use install_github() from the devtools package:

library(devtools)
install_github("rkward-community/rk.FactorAnalysis") # stable release
install_github("rkward-community/rk.FactorAnalysis", ref="develop") # development release

You can safely ignore warnings about the (unavailable) package “rkward”, it was installed together with RKWard.

Contributing

See https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/rkward/rkwardplugins/index.html for documentation on writing plugins for RKWard. Please contact the RKWard development mailing list for help, reports and requests.

• Submit pull requests or patches
• Contact us to get write access

This plugin is built using the rkwarddev package. This means that its development is mainly focussed on one script file, located at rk.FactorAnalysis/inst/rkward/rkwarddev_plugin_script_FA.R. This script is written in R code and generates all of the other plugin files when run. Therefore, in case you’d like to add to this plugin, please add to this script file.

Branches

Please note that all development happens in the develop branch. Pull requests against the master branch will be rejected, as it is reserved for the current stable release.

Licence

Copyright 2012-2022 Meik Michalke meik.michalke@hhu.de

rk.FactorAnalysis is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

rk.FactorAnalysis is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with rk.FactorAnalysis. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.