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.