R: Predictive Analysis

Learning PCA in R

In this section, we will learn more about how to use PCA in order to obtain knowledge from data, and ultimately reduce the number of attributes (also called features). The first dataset we will use is the msg dataset from the psych package. The motivational state questionnaire (msq ) dataset is composed of 92 attributes, of which 72 are ratings of adjectives by 3,896 participants describing their mood. We will only use these 72 attributes for current purpose, which is the exploration of the structure of the questionnaire. We will therefore start by installing and loading the package and the data, and assign the data we are interested in (the mentioned 72 attributes) to an object called motiv:

install.packages("psych") library(psych) ...