A number representing the number of variables to exclude at the beginning of data matrices (such as intercept) from PCA.
exactCount
A number that determines the number of components to be used. If zero, the number of components is determined by the cutoffRate.
cutoffRate
A number between 0 and 1 that determines the cutoff rate for the cumulative variance ratio in order to determine the number of PCA components. It is not used if exactCount is positive.
max
A number representing the maximum number of components when cutoffRate is used.