R: Plot the successive eigen values for a scree test

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## Plot the successive eigen values for a scree test

### Description

Cattell's scree test is one of most simple ways of testing the number of components or factors in a correlation matrix. Here we plot the eigen values of a correlation matrix as well as the eigen values of a factor analysis.

### Usage

    scree(rx,factors=TRUE,pc=TRUE,main="Scree plot",hline=NULL,add=FALSE)
    VSS.scree(rx, main = "scree plot")

### Arguments

`rx` | a correlation matrix or a data matrix. If data, then correlations are found using pairwise deletions.
`factors` | If true, draw the scree for factors
`pc` | If true, draw the scree for components
`hline` | if null, draw a horizontal line at 1, otherwise draw it at hline (make negative to not draw it)
`main` | Title
`add` | Should multiple plots be drawn?

### Details

Among the many ways to choose the optimal number of factors is the scree test. A better function to show the scree as well as compare it to randomly parallel solutions is found found in `fa.parallel`

### Author(s)

William Revelle

### References

http://personality-project.org/r/vss.html

### See Also

`fa.parallel` `VSS.plot`, `ICLUST`, `omega`

### Examples

    scree(attitude)
    #VSS.scree(cor(attitude)

[Package psych version 1.7.8 Index]