Hi

Here is a suggestion/request for stats::screeplot

* Please allow to change xlab and ylab.  The attached file does that, and maintains current 
behavior. Reason: strictly speaking, ylab should be "Variance" (singular). It would also 
be better to have an explicit label for the X axis: "Component"

In the would-be-nice-if category, I suggest addition of a type="cumulative" chart, a line 
graph of cumulative % of variance, labeled "% Variance" by default.

-Michael

----- screeplot.default.R ---------

screeplot.default <- function (x, npcs = min(10, length(x$sdev)),
               type = c("barplot", "lines"),
               xlab = "",
               ylab = "Variances",
               main = deparse(substitute(x)), ...)
{
    main
    type <- match.arg(type)
    pcs <- x$sdev^2
    xp <- seq_len(npcs)
    dev.hold()
    on.exit(dev.flush())
    if (type == "barplot")
        barplot(pcs[xp], names.arg = names(pcs[xp]), main = main,
            ylab = ylab, ...)
    else {
        plot(xp, pcs[xp], type = "b", axes = FALSE, main = main,
            xlab = xlab, ylab = ylab, ...)
        axis(2)
        axis(1, at = xp, labels = names(pcs[xp]))
    }
    invisible()
}

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