le-yuan / findpc

findPC: Automatic selection of number of principal components

findPC: Automatic selection of number of principal components

Overview

findPC is a software tool including six methods to automatically select the number of principal components to retain based on the standard deviations explained by each PC. A major advantage of findPC is that the only information required is a numeric vector of standard deviations explained by each PC.

findPC Installation

findPC software can be installed via Github. Users should have R installed on their computer before installing findPC. R can be downloaded here: http://www.r-project.org/. To install the latest version of findPC package via Github, run following commands in R:

if (!require("devtools"))
install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("haotian-zhuang/findPC")

User Manual

Check the following page for the user manual: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/haotian-zhuang/findPC/blob/main/vignettes/UserManual.html

Citation

Please cite the following paper: Zhuang et al., findPC: An R package to automatically select the number of principal components in single-cell analysis, Bioinformatics, 2022;, btac235, https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btac235

Contact the Author

Author: Haotian Zhuang, Zhicheng Ji

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Maintainer: Haotian Zhuang ([email protected])

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