Return a bar plot of the samples in the shade of one taxonomic rank; colored by a lower level rank.

Plots a stacked bar plot of the samples in the tidytacos object to inspect the taxonomic profile on two taxonomic ranks.

Usage

tacoplot_shade(
  ta,
  group = "family",
  subgroup = "genus",
  n = 5,
  N = 4,
  order_tax = "NA"
)

Arguments

ta

A tidytacos object.

group

The higher level taxonomic rank name (default: family)

subgroup

The lower level taxonomic rank name (default: genus)

n

Number of groups to plot.

N

Number of subgroups per group; max of 4.

order_tax

an optional individual name of the group taxonomic rank to sort the samples on. For examples order_by=Lactobacillaceae would order the x-axis by the abundance of Lactobacillaceae.