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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

65,894

Version

2.17

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Francois Husson

Last Published

September 8th, 2026

Functions in FactoMineR (2.17)

dimdesc

Dimension description
estim_ncp

Estimate the number of components in Principal Component Analysis
health

health (data)
ellipseCA

Draw confidence ellipses in CA
GPA

Generalised Procrustes Analysis
descfreq

Description of frequencies
graph.var

Make graph of variables
geomorphology

geomorphology(data)
decathlon

Performance in decathlon (data)
footsize

footsize
meansComp

Perform pairwise means comparisons
hobbies

hobbies (data)
plot.GPA

Draw the General Procrustes Analysis (GPA) map
mortality

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

Draw the Correspondence Analysis (CA) graphs
milk

milk
plot.FAMD

Draw the Multiple Factor Analysis for Mixt Data graphs
plotGPApartial

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

Draw the Dual Multiple Factor Analysis (DMFA) graphs
plot.CaGalt

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

Plots for Hierarchical Classification on Principle Components (HCPC) results
plot.catdes

Plots for description of clusters (catdes)
plot.HMFA

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

Draw the Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) graphs
plotellipses

Draw confidence ellipses around the categories
plotMFApartial

Plot an interactive Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA) graph
plot.meansComp

Draw the means comparisons
poison

Poison
plot.MFA

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

Draw the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) graphs
prefpls

Scatter plot and additional variables with quality of representation contour lines
predict.MCA

Predict projection for new rows with Multiple Correspondence Analysis
predict.LinearModel

Predict method for Linear Model Fits
predict.PCA

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

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

Predict projection for new rows with Factor Analysis of Mixed Data
predict.CA

Predict projection for new rows with Correspondence Analysis
poulet

Genomic data for chicken
summary.MCA

Printing summeries of MCA objects
summary.MFA

Printing summaries of MFA objects
print.AovSum

Print the AovSum results
poison.text

Poison
summary.FAMD

Printing summeries of FAMD objects
summary.CA

Printing summeries of ca objects
print.FAMD

Print the Multiple Factor Analysis of mixt Data (FAMD) results
print.HMFA

Print the Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis results
print.CaGalt

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

senso
reconst

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

Print the condes results
print.catdes

Print the catdes results
summary.CaGalt

Printing summaries of CaGalt objects
print.GPA

Print the Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA) results
simule

Simulate by bootstrap
print.HCPC

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

Print the Correspondance Analysis (CA) results
print.MCA

Print the Multiple Correspondance Analysis (MCA) results
print.PCA

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

Print the LinearModel results
print.MFA

Print the Multiple Factor Analysis results
summary.PCA

Printing summeries of PCA objects
svd.triplet

Singular Value Decomposition of a Matrix
write.infile

Print in a file
tab.disjonctif

Make a disjonctif table
theme_factominer

Theme for ggplot graphs and colour scales for FactoMineR
textual

Text mining
tab.disjonctif.prop

Make a disjunctive table when missing values are present
wine

Wine
tea

tea (data)
HMFA

Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis
catdes

Categories description
children

Children (data)
CaGalt

Correspondence Analysis on Generalised Aggregated Lexical Table (CaGalt)
DMFA

Dual Multiple Factor Analysis (DMFA)
FAMD

Factor Analysis for Mixed Data
CA

Correspondence Analysis (CA)
PCA

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
coeffRV

Calculate the RV coefficient and test its significance
autoLab

Function to better position the labels on the graphs
MCA

Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA)
RegBest

Select variables in multiple linear regression
FactoMineR-package

Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining with R
MFA

Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA)
AovSum

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

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

Number of medals in athletism during olympic games per country
HCPC

Hierarchical Clustering on Principle Components (HCPC)
condes

Continuous variable description
coord.ellipse

Construct confidence ellipses