This package is for version 3.16 of Bioconductor; for the stable, up-to-date release version, see lefser.
Bioconductor version: 3.16
lefser is an implementation in R of the popular "LDA Effect Size (LEfSe)" method for microbiome biomarker discovery. It uses the Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon-Rank Sum test, and Linear Discriminant Analysis to find biomarkers of groups and sub-groups.
Author: Asya Khleborodova [cre, aut], Ludwig Geistlinger [ctb], Marcel Ramos [ctb]  , Levi Waldron [ctb]
, Levi Waldron [ctb] 
Maintainer: Asya Khleborodova <asya.bioconductor at gmail.com>
Citation (from within R,
      enter citation("lefser")):
To install this package, start R (version "4.2") and enter:
if (!require("BiocManager", quietly = TRUE))
    install.packages("BiocManager")
BiocManager::install("lefser")
    For older versions of R, please refer to the appropriate Bioconductor release.
To view documentation for the version of this package installed in your system, start R and enter:
browseVignettes("lefser")
    
| HTML | R Script | Introduction to the lefser R implementation of the popular LEfSE software for biomarker discovery in microbiome analysis. | 
| Reference Manual | ||
| Text | NEWS | 
| biocViews | Classification, DifferentialExpression, Microbiome, Sequencing, Software, StatisticalMethod | 
| Version | 1.8.0 | 
| In Bioconductor since | BioC 3.12 (R-4.0) (2.5 years) | 
| License | Artistic-2.0 | 
| Depends | SummarizedExperiment, R (>= 4.0.0) | 
| Imports | coin, MASS, ggplot2, stats, methods | 
| LinkingTo | |
| Suggests | knitr, rmarkdown, curatedMetagenomicData, BiocStyle, testthat, pkgdown, covr, withr | 
| SystemRequirements | |
| Enhances | |
| URL | https://github.com/waldronlab/lefser | 
| BugReports | https://github.com/waldronlab/lefser/issues | 
| Depends On Me | |
| Imports Me | ggpicrust2 | 
| Suggests Me | |
| Links To Me | |
| Build Report | 
Follow Installation instructions to use this package in your R session.
| Source Package | lefser_1.8.0.tar.gz | 
| Windows Binary | lefser_1.8.0.zip | 
| macOS Binary (x86_64) | lefser_1.8.0.tgz | 
| macOS Binary (arm64) | lefser_1.8.0.tgz | 
| Source Repository | git clone https://git.bioconductor.org/packages/lefser | 
| Source Repository (Developer Access) | git clone git@git.bioconductor.org:packages/lefser | 
| Bioc Package Browser | https://code.bioconductor.org/browse/lefser/ | 
| Package Short Url | https://bioconductor.org/packages/lefser/ | 
| Package Downloads Report | Download Stats | 
 
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