qiime longitudinal linear-mixed-effects --p-metric issue

[Nicholas_Bokulich]

Hi Carlo,

@Carlo77

I’ve modified symbol “-” with “_” and everything goes fine.

That's right — some special characters cause errors because they are interpreted as mathematical symbols in your formula!

no need to extract though. A couple solutions:

1. (maybe) quoting the metric might work (this should work with the Artifact API and maybe quoting twice would work on the CLI, e.g., "'metric'")
2. (definitely works) use qiime feature-table group to rename your metric(s) in the feature table, instead of extracting to manually rename.

Here's how to relabel (just apply to the feature axis instead of sample axis):

Procrustes Analysis on Re-sequenced Samples

You can’t relabel the ids on the distance matrix, but you can relabel IDs on the feature table, using the feature-table group command. Add a new column to your metadata file with the new sample ids, then run this command. Once you have the relabeled table, replace the ID column in your metadata file with the “new” column you created before relabeling.