Transform pollen data using selected transformation

Transform pollen data using one of the selected transformations functions. This is a wrapper for vegan::decostand()

tranform_percentage_data(
  data_source,
  transformation = c("chisq", "hellinger", "none")
)

Arguments

data_source

Data frame with pollen data. Each row represents one level (sample) and each column represents one taxon. Table must contain sample_id column with unique values.

transformation

Selection of data transformation options. hellinger = Hellinger, chisq = Chisq, none = without transformation. Both Hellinger and Chisq are recommended for proportional/percentage data