I’m not aware of any, but if you really want this, it should be possible to 
modify the code of any of the functions you propose and delete the part doing 
the translation. I’m not sure that this is a good idea, though; either your 
matrices are *truly* centered, then it doesn’t make a difference, or they are 
only centered in theory but not in practice due to random error, then the 
rotation and scaling will depend heavily on the deviation of the center of the 
matrix from the origin. Optimal scaling and rotation in GPA are independent 
from each other so might be (de-)selected depending on needs, but they depend 
on the translation, so it seems to make sense that you cannot deselect that 
part. You wouldn’t do scaling of two variables without centering them around 0 
either, would you? You may transform them back if required, but scaling without 
centering first does not appeal to me, same for rotations.
HTH, Michael

From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] On 
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Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 19:09
To: r-help@r-project.org
Subject: [R] generalized procrustes analysis without translation

I am searching for a GPA function/algorithm that allows to omit translation of 
matrices.
procGPA in the shapes package does not have this option.
I need scaling, rotation and reflection but no translation as my matrices are 
naturally centered.

I am not sure if GPA from FactoMineR might be used for this.
There are no arguments allowing to switch on the above mentioned arguments 
except for scaling.
Frankly, I also do not understand how to set up the data for GPA properly, 
especially how to use the group argument.

Does someone know another GPA function or has some code available?

Thanks in advance
Mark

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