Creates a Raincloud plot

plotTaxaRaincloud(
  x,
  taxa = NULL,
  group_samples_by = NULL,
  opacity = 0.25,
  shape_point = 21
)

Arguments

x: phyloseq-class object.
taxa: Feature to plot.
group_samples_by: A column in sample_data to compare abundances.
opacity: Alpha value.
shape_point: Point shape.

Value

a ggplot2 object.

Details

A Rain Cloud plotting wrapper for phyloseq-class object.

References

Shetty SA (2021). Data visualization for microbiome analytics. https://github.com/microsud/biomeViz

Scherer Cédric (2021). A Step-by-Step tutorial as supplement to my talk “ggplot Wizardry: My Favorite Tricks and Secrets for Beautiful Plot in R” at OutlierConf 2021. https://z3tt.github.io/OutlierConf2021/

Author

Sudarshan A. Shetty

Examples

library(biomeUtils)
library(biomeViz)
library(microbiome)
library(dplyr)

ps <- FuentesIliGutData %>%
       microbiome::aggregate_taxa("Genus") %>%
       microbiome::transform("compositional")

# Select taxa and group to compare

plotTaxaRaincloud(ps,
                  taxa ="Bacteroides",
                  group_samples_by = "ILI",
                  opacity = 0.25,
                  shape_point = 21)