Understood. I also tried to download Aldex2 from github a while back.
(qiime2-2019.7) pmrubine-u01dx:~ kristinaadmin$ qiime aldex2 --help
Usage: qiime aldex2 [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS]...
Description: Analysis Of Differential Abundance Taking Sample Variation
Into Account
Plugin website: GitHub - ggloor/q2-aldex2: qiime2 plugin for aldex2 for differential abundance analysis
Getting user support: Please post to the QIIME 2 forum for help with this
plugin: https://forum.qiime2.org
Options:
--version Show the version and exit.
--citations Show citations and exit.
--help Show this message and exit.
Commands:
aldex2 Analysis Of Differential Abundance
effect-plot Effect plots
extract-differences Extract differentially expressed features
(qiime2-2019.7) pmrubine-u01dx:~ kristinaadmin$ qiime aldex2 --version
QIIME 2 Plugin 'aldex2' version 1.14.1 (from package 'q2-aldex2' version 0+untagged.31.g6a06bdc)
(qiime2-2019.7) pmrubine-u01dx:~ kristinaadmin$
It looks like it is version 1.14.1 that I was running. I have not updated the plugin.