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://msystems.asm.org/content/3/4/e00053-18, 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.
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
# Option 1 (non - Windows users)
devtools::install_github(repo = "UVic-omics/selbal")
# Option 2 (for Windows users)
devtools::install_url(url="https://github.com/UVic-omics/selbal/archive/master.zip",
INSTALL_opt= "--no-multiarch")
# Loading the library
library("selbal")
To start using selbal we recomend to:
- Read the manuscript [https://msystems.asm.org/content/3/4/e00053-18]
- Use the
help()functions for getting a detailed instructions of their use. - Read the associated vignette (see https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/UVic-omics/selbal/blob/master/vignettes/vignette.html).