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How to perform a principal component analysis on metabolomic data using R. This includes visual representations like a scree plot and a scatter plot for PC1 and PC2.  1 Problem You have obtained the relative quantities for 43 metabolites in Arabidopsis thaliana under salt stress conditions at different times. Saline stress is a important factor limiting plant growth and you want to study how the level of primary metabolites changes under these conditions....