I would like to do a partial least square discriminant analysis (PLSDA) in R using the package “ropls”

In my PLSDA the impact of two genders (AP,C) on 5 compounds measured in persons (samples) should be illustrated. 

However, when I try to do a PLSDA I get the warning message:

“Single component model: only 'overview' and 'permutation' (in case of single response (O)PLS(-DA)) plots available”

I assume it has something to do with the way I arrange my data into R. I tried to do it in a similar way as it has been done in the example of the package using the sacurine data set bioconductor.org/packages/release/bioc/vignettes/ropls/inst/doc/ropls-vignette.pdf

Can somebody maybe tell me how I correctly have to arrange my data in order to perfom a PLSDA using the “ropls” package?

Thank you very much,

Mike

Please find my code  and the sessinInfo() below. since I had trouble with the language detector i could not upload an example data set. But I uploaded some screeshots of the data structure

CODE:

#Input data and convert to data frame and define "Sample" as row

dta<-read.csv("Demo.csv",sep=";",header=T)

rownames(dta)<-dta$Sample

dta

#Picture of data structure

https://imgur.com/cAQN5l3

#Remove non-numeric "Sample" and "Gender" rows and convert to matrix

dta.exp<-dta[,c(-1,-7)]

matrix<-as.matrix(dta.exp)

matrix

#Picture of matrix structure

https://imgur.com/VLORhU0

https://imgur.com/DE0SEAL

#create vector with "gender" as y-component

dta.treatments<-dta[,7]

dta.treatments

dta.factor<-as.factor(dta.treatments)

dta.plsda <- opls(matrix, dta.factor)

SESSION INFO

sessionInfo()
R version 3.4.1 (2017-06-30)
Platform: i386-w64-mingw32/i386 (32-bit)
Running under: Windows 7 (build 7601) Service Pack 1

Matrix products: default

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Switzerland.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Switzerland.1252  
[3] LC_MONETARY=German_Switzerland.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                      
[5] LC_TIME=German_Switzerland.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ropls_1.8.0

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_3.4.1      parallel_3.4.1      tools_3.4.1         Biobase_2.36.2    
[5] BiocGenerics_0.22.0

Hi Mike,

In your dataset, the algorithm finds that the optimal number of component is 1. Hence, a score plot in two-dimensions is not returned.

By setting the number of predictive components to 2 (with 'predI = 2'), you will force the algorithm to compute the second component and thus the score-plot will be available.

Best wishes,

Etienne.