Varimax is orthogonal, promax is oblique. Varimax is generally not recommended. See: Preacher, K. J., & MacCallum, R. C. (2003). Repairing Tom Swift's electric factor analysis machine. Understanding Statistics, 2(1), 13-43. (Google the title and you'll find a PDF).
The fa() function in the psych package has more flavors of extraction and rotation. Jeremy On 22 June 2011 14:02, Rosario Garcia Gil <m.rosario.gar...@slu.se> wrote: > Hello > I seem to find only two types of rotation for the factanal function in R, the > Varimax and Promax, but is it possible to run a orthogonal and oblique > rotations in R? > > Thanks in advance > Rosario > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
