Generate Random Synthetic Microbial Communities — makeSynMiCo • fsmc

A function that creates synthetic data suitable for demonstration purposes of the fsmc package.

Usage

makeSynMiCo(
  name,
  n_species,
  max_met,
  scale_fac = 2,
  seed = FALSE,
  dead_ends = FALSE,
  MiCo = TRUE
)

Arguments

name: Character string giving the desired name of the community.
n_species: Number of species in the community
max_met: Maximum number of metabolites in the communities
scale_fac: Scaling factor
seed: Seed for reproducibility
dead_ends: Logical value to toggle dead ends in data
MiCo: Logical value to toggle return of MiCo object or tibble.

Value

List with n_co number of communities.

Examples

makeSynMiCo("Ex. Community", n_species = 5, max_met = 10)
#> Ex. Community: MiCo (MicrobialCommunity) Object
#> - Unique microorganisms (MO): 5
#> - Unique metabolites (met): 10