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FactoMineR

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How do you install the latest version of FactoMineR available on GitHub?

if (!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
install_github("husson/FactoMineR")

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install.packages('FactoMineR')

Monthly Downloads

112,895

Version

2.15

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Francois Husson

Last Published

June 11th, 2026

Functions in FactoMineR (2.15)

MFA

Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA)
condes

Continuous variable description
catdes

Categories description
coeffRV

Calculate the RV coefficient and test its significance
MCA

Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA)
autoLab

Function to better position the labels on the graphs
coord.ellipse

Construct confidence ellipses
children

Children (data)
RegBest

Select variables in multiple linear regression
PCA

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
footsize

footsize
dimdesc

Dimension description
descfreq

Description of frequencies
ellipseCA

Draw confidence ellipses in CA
GPA

Generalised Procrustes Analysis
graph.var

Make graph of variables
health

health (data)
geomorphology

geomorphology(data)
estim_ncp

Estimate the number of components in Principal Component Analysis
decathlon

Performance in decathlon (data)
plot.FAMD

Draw the Multiple Factor Analysis for Mixt Data graphs
mortality

The cause of mortality in France in 1979 and 2006
plot.CA

Draw the Correspondence Analysis (CA) graphs
milk

milk
plotGPApartial

Draw an interactive General Procrustes Analysis (GPA) map
plot.GPA

Draw the General Procrustes Analysis (GPA) map
plot.DMFA

Draw the Dual Multiple Factor Analysis (DMFA) graphs
meansComp

Perform pairwise means comparisons
hobbies

hobbies (data)
plot.CaGalt

Draw the Correspondence Analysis on Generalised Aggregated Lexical Table (CaGalt) graphs
plot.MFA

Draw the Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) graphs
plot.MCA

Draw the Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) graphs
plotMFApartial

Plot an interactive Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) graph
plotellipses

Draw confidence ellipses around the categories
plot.HMFA

Draw the Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis (HMFA) graphs
plot.catdes

Plots for description of clusters (catdes)
plot.meansComp

Draw the means comparisons
plot.HCPC

Plots for Hierarchical Classification on Principle Components (HCPC) results
predict.MFA

Predict projection for new rows with Multiple Factor Analysis
predict.PCA

Predict projection for new rows with Principal Component Analysis
predict.LinearModel

Predict method for Linear Model Fits
predict.MCA

Predict projection for new rows with Multiple Correspondence Analysis
poison

Poison
plot.PCA

Draw the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) graphs
prefpls

Scatter plot and additional variables with quality of representation contour lines
print.HCPC

Print the Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components (HCPC) results
print.HMFA

Print the Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis results
print.CA

Print the Correspondance Analysis (CA) results
print.LinearModel

Print the LinearModel results
print.CaGalt

Print the Correspondence Analysis on Generalised Aggregated Lexical Table (CaGalt) results
reconst

Reconstruction of the data from the PCA, CA or MFA results
print.MCA

Print the Multiple Correspondance Analysis (MCA) results
poison.text

Poison
poulet

Genomic data for chicken
print.MFA

Print the Multiple Factor Analysis results
print.PCA

Print the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) results
print.condes

Print the condes results
print.AovSum

Print the AovSum results
print.catdes

Print the catdes results
senso

senso
summary.PCA

Printing summeries of PCA objects
summary.CA

Printing summeries of ca objects
predict.CA

Predict projection for new rows with Correspondence Analysis
predict.FAMD

Predict projection for new rows with Factor Analysis of Mixed Data
simule

Simulate by bootstrap
svd.triplet

Singular Value Decomposition of a Matrix
tab.disjonctif

Make a disjonctif table
summary.CaGalt

Printing summaries of CaGalt objects
tab.disjonctif.prop

Make a disjunctive table when missing values are present
summary.MFA

Printing summaries of MFA objects
summary.MCA

Printing summeries of MCA objects
print.FAMD

Print the Multiple Factor Analysis of mixt Data (FAMD) results
wine

Wine
write.infile

Print in a file
summary.FAMD

Printing summeries of FAMD objects
print.GPA

Print the Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA) results
tea

tea (data)
textual

Text mining
AovSum

Analysis of variance with the contrasts sum (the sum of the coefficients is 0)
CA

Correspondence Analysis (CA)
FactoMineR-package

Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining with R
DMFA

Dual Multiple Factor Analysis (DMFA)
FAMD

Factor Analysis for Mixed Data
JO

Number of medals in athletism during olympic games per country
HMFA

Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis
LinearModel

Linear Model with AIC or BIC selection, and with the contrasts sum (the sum of the coefficients is 0) if any categorical variables
HCPC

Hierarchical Clustering on Principle Components (HCPC)
CaGalt

Correspondence Analysis on Generalised Aggregated Lexical Table (CaGalt)