Introduction

The example is split into 2 Parts:

Part 1 must be completed first to create a file, SNPs_cleaned.csv, that has been completely prepared for analysis.

Now in Part 2, you will analyze the data with PCA. The steps here will be:

  1. Center the data (scale())
  2. Run a PCA analysis (prcomp())
  3. Evaluate the scree plot from the PCA (screeplot())
  4. Evaluate the amount of variation explained by the first 2 PCs.
  5. Extract the PCA scores for plotting (vegan::scores())
  6. Plot the data

Tasks

In the code below all code is provided. Your tasks will be to do 4 things:

  1. Give a meaningful title to all sections marked “TODO: TITLE”
  2. Write 1 to 2 sentences describing what is being done and why in all sections marked “TODO: EXPLAIN”
  3. Add titles and axes to plots in all sections marked “TODO: UPDATE PLOT”
  4. Write 1 or 2 sentences interpreting the output from R in all sections marked “TODO: INTERPRET”

Preliminaries

Load the vcfR package with library()

library(vcfR) # KEY
## Warning: package 'vcfR' was built under R version 4.2.2
## 
##    *****       ***   vcfR   ***       *****
##    This is vcfR 1.13.0 
##      browseVignettes('vcfR') # Documentation
##      citation('vcfR') # Citation
##    *****       *****      *****       *****
library(vegan)
## Loading required package: permute
## Loading required package: lattice
## This is vegan 2.6-2
library(ggplot2)
library(ggpubr)

Set the working directory

setwd("C:/Users/willi/Desktop/Rstudio")

Load the data

SNPs_cleaned <- read.csv(file = "SNPs_cleaned.csv")

warning("If this didn't work, its may be because you didn't set your working directory.")
## Warning: If this didn't work, its may be because you didn't set your working
## directory.

Data analysis

Scaling

Use scale() to scale SNPS_cleaned by centering it around the mean

SNPs_scaled <- scale(SNPs_cleaned)

Running PCR

Run prcomp on the SNP_scaled

pca_scaled <- prcomp(SNPs_scaled)

Scree Plot

Create a Scree Plot using the PCR result from aboe and add the label for ylab and a title

TODO: UPDATE PLOT WITH TITLE

screeplot(pca_scaled, 
          ylab  = "Relative importance",
          main = "The importance of PC")

TODO: PC1 is the most importnat PC results because the others are identical and non-negotiable to each other

Output Summary

find the information on variation using summary() and store it in which is called: summary_out_scaled

summary_out_scaled <- summary(pca_scaled)
PCA_variation <- function(pca_summary, PCs = 2){
  var_explained <- pca_summary$importance[2,1:PCs]*100
  var_explained <- round(var_explained,1)
  return(var_explained)
}
var_out <- PCA_variation(summary_out_scaled,PCs = 10)
N_columns <- ncol(SNPs_scaled)
barplot(var_out,
        main = "Percent variation Scree plot",
        ylab = "Percent variation explained")
abline(h = 1/N_columns*100, col = 2, lwd = 2)

TODO: In order to calculate the redline it is done by 100 divided by the total numver of snps which in this case is 50 which then the variance would be 2%

TODO: Biplot

Create a biplot of the the PCA results with PC2 on the left and PC1 on the bottom

biplot(pca_scaled)

TODO: EXPLAIN WHY THIS IS A BAD IDEA This is a bad idea because the data would be all over the place where no clear trends will be present. Also clusters would not be clear it would just have a blo. Also pc2-10 are identical so there would be a similar vairation.

TODO: Get PCA_score

TODO: use vegan::scores to get the PCA scores

pca_scores <- vegan::scores(pca_scaled)

Creating a vector of id’s for the sample

pop_id <- c("Nel","Nel","Nel","Nel","Nel","Nel","Nel","Nel",
"Nel", "Nel", "Nel", "Nel", "Nel", "Nel", "Nel", "Alt",
"Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt",
"Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Alt", "Sub", "Sub",
"Sub", "Sub", "Sub", "Sub", "Sub", "Sub", "Sub", "Sub",
"Sub", "Cau", "Cau", "Cau", "Cau", "Cau", "Cau", "Cau",
"Cau", "Cau", "Cau", "Cau", "Cau", "Div", "Div", "Div",
"Div", "Div", "Div", "Div", "Div", "Div", "Div", "Div",
"Div", "Div", "Div", "Div")

Combinde the pop_id with the pca Scores in a data frame

pca_scores2 <- data.frame(pop_id,
                              pca_scores)

PCA Scatterplot

TODO: The points are color coded with different pop_id’s and the axis has a different vairations from it’s pc’s

TODO: UPDATE PLOT WITH TITLE TODO: UPDATE X and Y AXES WITH AMOUNT OF VARIATION EXPLAINED

ggpubr::ggscatter(data = pca_scores2,
                  y = "PC2",
                  x = "PC1",
                  color = "pop_id",
                  shape = "pop_id",
                  xlab = "PC1 (20.2% variation)",
                  ylab = "PC2 (2.3% variation)",
                  main = "Scatterplot of birds")

TODO: The birds with sub were the most unique. Alt and nel birds were the same to each other and so was cau and div birds.