selbal

selbal is an R package for selection of balances in microbiome compositional data. As described in Rivera-Pinto et al. 2018 Balances: a new perspective for microbiome analysis https://doi.org/10.1101/219386, selbal implements a forward-selection method for the identification of two groups of taxa whose relative abundance, or balance, is associated with the response variable of interest.

Getting Started

Installation

To get a full access to the functions implemented in selbal we only need to run the following instructions:

# Installing the files in the repository
  devtools::install_github(repo = "UVic-omics/selbal")
# Loading the library
  library("selbal")

Running selbal

To start using selbal we recomend to:

• Read the submitted manuscript [https://doi.org/10.1101/219386]
• Use the help() functions for getting a detailed instructions of their use.
• Read the associated vignette (see vignette folder).