Alpha Diversity Measures — alpha_diversity_measures • MicrobiomeR

This function generates various alpha diversity measures include Shannon, Fisher, Coverage, GiniSimpson, and InverseSimpson.

alpha_diversity_measures(obj, group = "TreatmentGroup")

Arguments

obj: An object to be converted to a Taxmap object with create_taxmap.
group: The "TreatmentGroup" or similar grouping from your metadata to denote sample groups, Default: 'TreatmentGroup'

Value

Returns a list of alpha diversity measures with metadata.

See also

View alpha,meta to learn more about generating diversity measures with the microbiome package.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
if (interactive()) {
  library(MicrobiomeR)
  data <- analyzed_silva
  measures <- alpha_diversity_measures(data)
  measures$Shannon
}
} # }