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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

84,117

Version

2.12

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Francois Husson

Last Published

July 23rd, 2025

Functions in FactoMineR (2.12)

RegBest

Select variables in multiple linear regression
PCA

Principal Component Analysis (PCA)
coeffRV

Calculate the RV coefficient and test its significance
autoLab

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

Construct confidence ellipses
MCA

Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA)
MFA

Multiple Factor Analysis (MFA)
children

Children (data)
condes

Continuous variable description
catdes

Categories description
decathlon

Performance in decathlon (data)
dimdesc

Dimension description
graph.var

Make graph of variables
estim_ncp

Estimate the number of components in Principal Component Analysis
geomorphology

geomorphology(data)
health

health (data)
descfreq

Description of frequencies
plot.DMFA

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

Draw the Multiple Factor Analysis for Mixt Data graphs
GPA

Generalised Procrustes Analysis
meansComp

Perform pairwise means comparisons
hobbies

hobbies (data)
footsize

footsize
mortality

The cause of mortality in France in 1979 and 2006
milk

milk
ellipseCA

Draw confidence ellipses in CA
plot.CaGalt

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

Draw the Correspondence Analysis (CA) graphs
plotMFApartial

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

Draw the General Procrustes Analysis (GPA) map
plotGPApartial

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

Draw the means comparisons
plot.HMFA

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

Plots for description of clusters (catdes)
plot.HCPC

Plots for Hierarchical Classification on Principle Components (HCPC) results
poulet

Genomic data for chicken
poison.text

Poison
predict.CA

Predict projection for new rows with Correspondence Analysis
predict.FAMD

Predict projection for new rows with Factor Analysis of Mixed Data
plot.MFA

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

Draw the Multiple Correspondence Analysis (MCA) graphs
predict.LinearModel

Predict method for Linear Model Fits
poison

Poison
print.CaGalt

Print the Correspondence Analysis on Generalised Aggregated Lexical Table (CaGalt) results
plot.PCA

Draw the Principal Component Analysis (PCA) graphs
predict.MCA

Predict projection for new rows with Multiple Correspondence Analysis
summary.MCA

Printing summeries of MCA objects
summary.MFA

Printing summaries of MFA objects
tab.disjonctif

Make a disjonctif table
print.AovSum

Print the AovSum results
print.LinearModel

Print the LinearModel results
print.CA

Print the Correspondance Analysis (CA) results
prefpls

Scatter plot and additional variables with quality of representation contour lines
plotellipses

Draw confidence ellipses around the categories
print.MCA

Print the Multiple Correspondance Analysis (MCA) results
wine

Wine
print.MFA

Print the Multiple Factor Analysis results
print.PCA

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

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

Print the Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA) results
write.infile

Print in a file
simule

Simulate by bootstrap
summary.CA

Printing summeries of ca objects
predict.MFA

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

Predict projection for new rows with Principal Component Analysis
summary.FAMD

Printing summeries of FAMD objects
tea

tea (data)
print.catdes

Print the catdes results
tab.disjonctif.prop

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

Printing summeries of PCA objects
print.condes

Print the condes results
summary.CaGalt

Printing summaries of CaGalt objects
print.HCPC

Print the Hierarchical Clustering on Principal Components (HCPC) results
svd.triplet

Singular Value Decomposition of a Matrix
senso

senso
reconst

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

Print the Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis results
textual

Text mining
FAMD

Factor Analysis for Mixed Data
CA

Correspondence Analysis (CA)
CaGalt

Correspondence Analysis on Generalised Aggregated Lexical Table (CaGalt)
DMFA

Dual Multiple Factor Analysis (DMFA)
HCPC

Hierarchical Clustering on Principle Components (HCPC)
FactoMineR-package

Multivariate Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Mining with R
AovSum

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

Number of medals in athletism during olympic games per country
LinearModel

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

Hierarchical Multiple Factor Analysis