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I am trying to do PCA on data frame with 5000 columns and 30 rows
Sample <- read.table(file.choose(), header=F,sep="\t")
Sample.scaled <- data.frame(apply(Sample,2,scale))
pca.Sample <- prcomp(Sample.scaled,retx=TRUE)`
Got the error
Error in svd(x, nu = 0) : infinite or missing values in 'x'
sum(is.na(Sample))
[1] 0
sum(is.na(Sample.scaled))
[1] 90
Tried to ignore all na values by using the following
pca.Sample <- prcomp(na.omit(Sample.scaled),retx=TRUE)
Which gives the following error
Error in svd(x, nu = 0) : 0 extent dimensions
There were reports that na.action requires formula to be given and hence tried the below
pca.Sample <- prcomp(~.,center=TRUE,scale=TRUE,Sample, na.action=na.omit)
Now getting the following error
Error in prcomp.default(x, ...) :
cannot rescale a constant/zero column to unit variance
Think that the problem might be because "One of my data columns is constant. The variance of a constant is 0, and scaling would then divide by 0, which is impossible."
But not sure on how to tackle this. Any help much appreciated ....