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PCAtools
This package is for version 3.10 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see PCAtools.
PCAtools: Everything Principal Components Analysis
Bioconductor version: 3.10
Principal Components Analysis (PCA) is a very powerful technique that has wide applicability in data science, bioinformatics, and further afield. It was initially developed to analyse large volumes of data in order to tease out the differences/relationships between the logical entities being analysed. It extracts the fundamental structure of the data without the need to build any model to represent it. This 'summary' of the data is arrived at through a process of reduction that can transform the large number of variables into a lesser number that are uncorrelated, i.e., the principal components, whilst at the same time being capable of easy interpretation on the original data.
Author: Kevin Blighe [aut, cre], Myles Lewis [ctb], Aaron Lun [ctb]
Maintainer: Kevin Blighe <kevin at clinicalbioinformatics.co.uk>
citation("PCAtools")):
Installation
To install this package, start R (version "3.6") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("PCAtools")
For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
Documentation
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("PCAtools")
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