fviz_pca: Visualize Principal Component Analysis in factoextra: Extract and Visualize the Results of Multivariate Data Analyses (2024)

Principal component analysis (PCA) reduces the dimensionality ofmultivariate data, to two or three that can be visualized graphically with minimal loss of information. fviz_pca() provides ggplot2-based elegant visualization of PCA outputs from: i) prcomp and princomp [in built-in R stats], ii) PCA [in FactoMineR], iii) dudi.pca [in ade4] and epPCA [ExPosition]. Read more: PrincipalComponent Analysis

Note that, fviz_pca_xxx() functions are wrapper arround the corefunction fviz(), whih is also a wrapper arround thefunction ggscatter() [in ggpubr]. Therfore, further arguments, to bepassed to the function fviz() and ggscatter(), can be specified infviz_pca_ind() and fviz_pca_var().

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fviz_pca(X, ...)fviz_pca_ind( X, axes = c(1, 2), geom = c("point", "text"), geom.ind = geom, repel = FALSE, habillage = "none", palette = NULL, addEllipses = FALSE, col.ind = "black", fill.ind = "white", col.ind.sup = "blue", alpha.ind = 1, select.ind = list(name = NULL, cos2 = NULL, contrib = NULL), ...)fviz_pca_var( X, axes = c(1, 2), geom = c("arrow", "text"), geom.var = geom, repel = FALSE, col.var = "black", fill.var = "white", alpha.var = 1, col.quanti.sup = "blue", col.circle = "grey70", select.var = list(name = NULL, cos2 = NULL, contrib = NULL), ...)fviz_pca_biplot( X, axes = c(1, 2), geom = c("point", "text"), geom.ind = geom, geom.var = c("arrow", "text"), col.ind = "black", fill.ind = "white", col.var = "steelblue", fill.var = "white", gradient.cols = NULL, label = "all", invisible = "none", repel = FALSE, habillage = "none", palette = NULL, addEllipses = FALSE, title = "PCA - Biplot", ...)
X

an object of class PCA [FactoMineR]; prcomp and princomp [stats]; dudi and pca [ade4]; expOutput/epPCA [ExPosition].

...

Additional arguments.

axes

a numeric vector of length 2 specifying the dimensions to be plotted.

geom

a text specifying the geometry to be used for the graph. Allowed values are the combination of c("point", "arrow", "text"). Use "point" (to show only points); "text" to show only labels; c("point", "text") or c("arrow", "text") to show arrows and texts. Using c("arrow", "text") is sensible only for the graph of variables.

geom.ind, geom.var

as geom but for individuals and variables, respectively. Default is geom.ind = c("point", "text), geom.var = c("arrow", "text").

repel

a boolean, whether to use ggrepel to avoid overplotting text labels or not.

habillage

an optional factor variable for coloring the observations bygroups. Default value is "none". If X is a PCA object from FactoMineR package, habillage can also specify the supplementary qualitative variable (by its index or name) to be used for coloring individuals by groups (see ?PCA in FactoMineR).

palette

the color palette to be used for coloring or filling bygroups. Allowed values include "grey" for grey color palettes; brewerpalettes e.g. "RdBu", "Blues", ...; or custom color palette e.g. c("blue","red"); and scientific journal palettes from ggsci R package, e.g.: "npg","aaas", "lancet", "jco", "ucscgb", "uchicago", "simpsons" and"rickandmorty". Can be also a numeric vector of length(groups); in thiscase a basic color palette is created using the functionpalette.

addEllipses

logical value. If TRUE, draws ellipses around the individuals when habillage != "none".

col.ind, col.var

color for individuals and variables, respectively. Canbe a continuous variable or a factor variable. Possible values include also: "cos2", "contrib", "coord", "x" or "y". In this case, the colors for individuals/variables are automatically controlled by their qualities of representation ("cos2"), contributions ("contrib"), coordinates (x^2+y^2, "coord"), x values ("x") or y values ("y"). To use automatic coloring (by cos2, contrib, ....), make sure that habillage ="none".

fill.ind, fill.var

same as col.ind and col.var but for the fill color.

col.ind.sup

color for supplementary individuals

alpha.ind, alpha.var

controls the transparency of individual and variable colors, respectively. The value can variate from 0 (total transparency) to 1 (no transparency). Default value is 1. Possible values include also : "cos2", "contrib", "coord", "x" or "y". In this case, the transparency for the individual/variable colors are automatically controlled by their qualities ("cos2"), contributions ("contrib"), coordinates (x^2+y^2, "coord"), x values("x") or y values("y"). To use this, make sure that habillage ="none".

select.ind, select.var

a selection of individuals/variables to be drawn. Allowed values are NULL or a list containing the arguments name, cos2 or contrib:

  • name: is a character vector containing individuals/variables to be drawn

  • cos2: if cos2 is in [0, 1], ex: 0.6, then individuals/variables with a cos2 > 0.6 are drawn. if cos2 > 1, ex: 5, then the top 5 individuals/variables with the highest cos2 are drawn.

  • contrib: if contrib > 1, ex: 5, then the top 5 individuals/variables with the highest contrib are drawn

col.quanti.sup

a color for the quantitative supplementary variables.

col.circle

a color for the correlation circle. Used only when X is a PCA output.

gradient.cols

vector of colors to use for n-colour gradient. Allowedvalues include brewer and ggsci color palettes.

label

a text specifying the elements to be labelled. Default value is "all". Allowed values are "none" or the combination of c("ind", "ind.sup", "quali", "var", "quanti.sup"). "ind" can be used to label only active individuals. "ind.sup" is for supplementary individuals. "quali" is for supplementary qualitative variables. "var" is for active variables. "quanti.sup" is for quantitative supplementary variables.

invisible

a text specifying the elements to be hidden on the plot. Default value is "none". Allowed values are the combination of c("ind", "ind.sup", "quali", "var", "quanti.sup").

title

the title of the graph

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# Principal component analysis# ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++data(iris)res.pca <- prcomp(iris[, -5], scale = TRUE)# Graph of individuals# +++++++++++++++++++++# Default plot# Use repel = TRUE to avoid overplotting (slow if many points)fviz_pca_ind(res.pca, col.ind = "#00AFBB", repel = TRUE) # 1. Control automatically the color of individuals  # using the "cos2" or the contributions "contrib" # cos2 = the quality of the individuals on the factor map# 2. To keep only point or text use geom = "point" or geom = "text".# 3. Change themes using ggtheme: http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/ggplot2-themesfviz_pca_ind(res.pca, col.ind="cos2", geom = "point", gradient.cols = c("white", "#2E9FDF", "#FC4E07" ))# Color individuals by groups, add concentration ellipses# Change group colors using RColorBrewer color palettes# Read more: http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/ggplot2-colors# Remove labels: label = "none".fviz_pca_ind(res.pca, label="none", habillage=iris$Species, addEllipses=TRUE, ellipse.level=0.95, palette = "Dark2") # Change group colors manually# Read more: http://www.sthda.com/english/wiki/ggplot2-colorsfviz_pca_ind(res.pca, label="none", habillage=iris$Species, addEllipses=TRUE, ellipse.level=0.95, palette = c("#999999", "#E69F00", "#56B4E9")) # Select and visualize some individuals (ind) with select.ind argument. # - ind with cos2 >= 0.96: select.ind = list(cos2 = 0.96) # - Top 20 ind according to the cos2: select.ind = list(cos2 = 20) # - Top 20 contributing individuals: select.ind = list(contrib = 20) # - Select ind by names: select.ind = list(name = c("23", "42", "119") ) # Example: Select the top 40 according to the cos2fviz_pca_ind(res.pca, select.ind = list(cos2 = 40)) # Graph of variables# ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ # Default plotfviz_pca_var(res.pca, col.var = "steelblue") # Control variable colors using their contributionsfviz_pca_var(res.pca, col.var = "contrib", gradient.cols = c("white", "blue", "red"), ggtheme = theme_minimal()) # Biplot of individuals and variables# ++++++++++++++++++++++++++# Keep only the labels for variables# Change the color by groups, add ellipsesfviz_pca_biplot(res.pca, label = "var", habillage=iris$Species, addEllipses=TRUE, ellipse.level=0.95, ggtheme = theme_minimal()) 
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