PrnCmp Basis Selecting this button performs a principal components transformation of the active variables in the data. When projection pursuit is selected, this is automatically activated: the 2-dimensional projection pursuit indices are designed for sphered data, and currently this sphering is done by principal components. There is no restriction in XGobi against using the projection pursuit guided tour with unsphered data, but beware: it may not produce sensible results. When sphering is turned on the tour history list is cleared because the previous history pertained to the unsphered data.