The yacca package contains basic functionality for
canonical correlation analysis and related calculations (e.g., canonical
redundancy, loadings, etc.). As the name implies, this is one of many
(including the cancor function of base R). yacca is not
necessarily superior to the others, but supplies various bits of
functionality that are convenient and otherwise difficult to find in one
place (e.g., helio plots for loadings, redundancy score calculation,
regularization support). If you prefer a different package, rest assured
that the author is not offended.
yacca was originally hosted on CRAN, but was mothballed
due to lack of active maintenance. This version is refreshed and
apparently functional with recent R versions. It may return to CRAN at
some point, but in the interim it is available via this fine repository.
If you use this package in your research, it would be greatly
appreciated if you could cite it. E.g.:
Butts, Carter T. 2008. “yacca: Yet Another Canonical Correlation Analysis Package.” Software package.
(Or the citation() command in R, to specifically cite
the current version.)
More information regarding the package and its use may be found within the package documentation.
To install the yacca package from the comfort of your
own home or office, first ensure that you have the devtools
package installed and loaded. Then, type the following:
install_github("carterbutts/yacca", subdir="yacca")Alternately, cloning this repository and building/installing the package locally is another option. But in that case, you don’t need my help to tell you what to do, now do you?
-CTB, 2/5/21