The loaded R package versions (in the order mentioned in the chapter):
hflights 0.1 (CRAN)
MVN 3.9 (CRAN)
ellipse 0.3-8 (CRAN)
psych 1.5.4 (CRAN)
GPArotation 2014.11-1 (CRAN)
jpeg 0.1-8 (CRAN)
Further R packages:
mvnormtest 0.1-9 (CRAN)
corrgram 1.8 (CRAN)
MASS 7.3-40 (CRAN)
sem 3.1-6 (CRAN)
ca 0.58 (CRAN)
Further reading:
FactoMineR: An R Package for Multivariate Analysis, JSS, Sebastien Le, Julie Josse, Francois Husson in 2008 at http://factominer.free.fr/docs/article_FactoMineR.pdf
Exploratory Multivariate Analysis by Example using R, CRC, Francois Husson, Sebastien Le, Jerome Pages in 2010
An index of factor simplicity, Psychometrika 39, 31–36 Kaiser, H. F. in 1974
Principal Component Analysis in R, Gregory B. Anderson, at http://www.ime.usp.br/~pavan/pdf/MAE0330-PCA-R-2013
Structural Equation Modeling With the sem Package in R, John Fox in 2006 at http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/jfox/Misc/sem/SEM-paper.pdf
Correspondence Analysis in R, with Two- and Three-dimensional Graphics: The ca Package, JSS by Oleg Nenadic, Michael Greenacre in 2007 at http://www.jstatsoft.org/v20/i03/paper
PCA explained visually, Victor Powell at http://setosa.io/ev/principal-component-analysis/