calc_diversity: Calculate diversity values

View source: R/diversity-based.R

calc_diversityR Documentation

Calculate diversity values

Description

Calculate diversity values from a taxa table.

Usage

calc_diversity(tax_table, metric)

Arguments

tax_table

The taxa table.

metric

The diversity metric to calculate. Acceptable values are: 'richness', 'shannon', and 'simpson'.

Details

Richness is the number of unique species per sample. Simpson's diversity metric (1 - D) quantifies evenness, and Shannon diversity is a combination of richness and evenness.

Value

A numeric vector providing the specificed diversity metric for each sample.

Examples

calc_diversity(fruits_veggies$data_loaded, "shannon")

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