Metadata-Version: 2.1
Name: factanal
Version: 0.1.0
Summary: A python wrapper for the R function factanal.
Home-page: https://github.com/kjul/factanalpy
Author: Julian Kunschke
Author-email: juliankunschke@yahoo.de
License: MIT
Platform: UNKNOWN
Classifier: License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3.8
Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
Requires-Dist: rpy2

### Factanalpy

Python wrapper replicating the known factor analysis output from factanal R function. 
The only supported input is a pandas data frame. Formulas as input are currently 
not supported. A covariance matrix is always computed from the input data frame. 
Setting control variables for maximum likelihood estimation is currently not 
supported.


Further information on R's factanal function for factor analysis: https://www.rdocumentation.org/packages/stats/versions/3.6.2/topics/factanal

More information on the factanal output and examples: 
https://data.library.virginia.edu/getting-started-with-factor-analysis/


#### Installation

```pip install factanal```

#### Dependencies
The only dependency is the rpy2 library. 

```pip install rpy2```

In addition to that, R must be installed on your system and accessible to rpy2.

More information on rpy2: https://rpy2.github.io/doc/latest/html/index.html

Download R here: https://www.r-project.org/

#### Misc
Factanal for python is MIT licensed.




