Changes in version 1.12.0                        

Significant user-visible changes

  - The checkAbundances argument in lefser() checks that data are as
    relative abundances and warns if otherwise (@LiNk-NY @sdgamboa, #28)
  - relativeAb helper function available to convert data (@LiNk-NY)
  - Deprecate the expr argument and use relab (short for relative
    abundances)
  - Add group labels to lefserPlot (@LiNk-NY #25, @asyakhl #31)
  - 'Interoperating with phyloseq' section added to the vignette (#16)

                        Changes in version 1.0.0                        

  - lefser is an R/Bioconductor implementation of the LEfSe method for
    microbiome marker discovery
    (https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2011-12-6-r60)
  - LEfSe uses the Kruskal-Wallis test, Wilcoxon-Rank Sum test, and
    Linear Discriminant Analysis to find biomarkers in groups and
    sub-group blocks.
  - lefser also implements the format of the LEfSe barplot of results