Renames taxa to have short human-readable names
Usage
clean_taxa_names(x, name = "OTU")
Arguments
- x
Object of class phyloseq
- name
Character, defaults to "OTU". Optional. String to use in every taxa name.
Value
Object of class phyloseq, with taxa renamed (defaults to OTU1, OTU2, ...), with the original taxa names saved as an attribute.
Details
The original taxa names are saved as the original_names attribute. See the example for an example of how to access the original names.