#Permutational Multivariate Analysis of Variance Using Distance Matrices (PERMANOA) #Package Vegan, function Adonis #Code: library (vegan) F1<-read.csv ("OTU_abundance.csv") # bacterial OTU abundances F2<-read.csv ("Sample_information.csv") # Sample metadata that can have categorical variables that describe samples e.g. species, families, stage, locations etc. model.permanova <-adonis (F1~X, data=F2, permutations = 10000) # X is the categorical variable for which the test is performed model.permanova # get the permanova output