joey711/phyloseq — Issue #54: Make/document small simulated dataset for running example.
Author: joey711
Created: 2011-12-10 23:57:28+00:00
State: open
Labels: Documentation, Feature

Bioconductor critique, Item (4) running examples in man pages and vignette:

You will need to find or create some small sample data files for
at least a couple of the data types you are handling. It is
important to have running examples in the man pages and vignette.

This is easily addressed. Perhaps simulate some data that adds to the "phylocom" dataset from the picante package, which you "depends"-on, anyway. You could save in a particular format that matches one of the importers, or create the whole small simulated dataset as a phyloseq object, and have your running examples work on it (for fast examples). Some examples still might be better using a "real" HT dataset, like the already-included "ex1".