If your problem really requires genetics jargon to be expressed, then perhaps 
you should be asking it in a forum where more of the participants are likely to 
understand it... like the Bioconductor help forum?

https://www.bioconductor.org/help/support/

The Posting Guide mentioned in the footer has quite a lot of helpful context 
for the kinds of questions that are appropriate here... I recommend reading it.
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Sent from my phone. Please excuse my brevity.

On March 6, 2017 5:16:16 PM PST, Thilini Maddegoda Vidanelage 
<tmad...@aucklanduni.ac.nz> wrote:
>Hi,
>I am analyzing a huge excel table with OTUs. In the table, I have 2910
>columns and 365 rows.Each column represents one individual (n=2910).
>Rows
>represent microbial species (n=365).
>I have the total of all OTUs of microbial species under each column.
>Then I
>need to get the percentages of each species in each individual.I
>started to
>do this in excel but I have to repeat this for 2910 times which is
>going to
>be very time-consuming.  I am sure there should be a smart way to do
>this
>and just wondering whether there is any R script to do this.Any help is
>much appreciated.
>Many thanks, Thilini
>
>*Thilini Jayasinghe*
>PhD Candidate
>Liggins Institute
>The University of Auckland
>Building 503/201, 85 Park Road, Grafton, Auckland 2023
>Mobile: +64 220211604
>Email: tmad...@aucklanduni.ac.nz
>
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