attributes:
First column (character or
numeric) must contain OTU names, the second column (character or numeric) must contain
parents of corresponding OTUs and the third column (optional) can contain colors of corresponding OTUs.
The order of OTUs in the first column determines the order of sister OTUs (OTUs with the same parent)
in the Muller plot. Those parents which are not present in the OTU list
(first column) or in the population dynamics must be substituted by NA. At least one NA
must exist in the second column. All the OTUs present in the rownames of population.data
must exist in the first column of attributes (names). If third column is not provided, random color
will be assigned to OTUs.
population.data:
When data.method is "list" population.data must have 3 columns. The first column
(character or numeric) contains OTU names. The second column (numeric) contains
times or generations. The third column (character) contains abundances of
corresponding OTU at corresponding time.
When data.method is "table" population.data must be an OTU table. rownames of
population.data must be OTU names and colnames of it must be times or
generations. Each column contains abundance of OTUs at that time/generation.
time.interval.method:
"linear" means that distances between subsequent time points on time/generation axis is
linear. "equal" means that regardless of the values in time/generation points, subsequent
time points have equal distance.