phyloseq: taxa_sums – R documentation

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taxa_sums

Returns the total number of individuals observed from each species/taxa/OTU.

Description

A convenience function equivalent to rowSums or colSums, but where the orientation of the otu_table is automatically handled.

Usage

taxa_sums(x)

Arguments

`x`	`otu_table-class`, or `phyloseq-class`.

Value

A numeric-class with length equal to the number of species in the table, name indicated the taxa ID, and value equal to the sum of all individuals observed for each taxa in x.

Examples

data(enterotype)
taxa_sums(enterotype)
data(esophagus)
taxa_sums(esophagus)

phyloseq

Handling and analysis of high-throughput microbiome census data

v1.34.0

AGPL-3

Authors

Paul J. McMurdie <joey711@gmail.com>, Susan Holmes <susan@stat.stanford.edu>, with contributions from Gregory Jordan and Scott Chamberlain

Initial release

2019-04-23