Dear all,
I would like to ask you the following:
I have data about different manuscripts, together with data about the
presence/absence of copying errors, in the days when manuscript were
really manuscripts. I would ideally like to use the data to draw a
phylogenetic tree, so that I can infer which ms was copied from which.
The error presence/absence is coded in binary format. The plan is to use
a maximun parsimony tree approach. The data looks like this toy example:
"ms1" "ms2" "ms3" "ms4"
"err1" 0 1 0 0
"err2" 0 0 1 1
"err3" 1 1 0 0
"err4" 0 0 0 1
"err5" 1 1 1 0
"err6" 1 1 0 1
"err7" 0 1 0 0
"err8" 0 1 0 1
Additionally I have a vector of weights for the errors (and more info to
be possibly used).
Does R have a set of fuctions of a library that will calculate the a
phylogenetic tree from such data? I installed "ape", but, despite
reading the docs, I cannot find a function that would calculate a tree
from data like mine (my sight may be getting worse though). Any
suggestion is welcome.
Regards,
Federico Calboli
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Federico C. F. Calboli
Dipartimento di Biologia Evoluzionistica Sperimentale
Universit?? di Bologna
Via Selmi, 3
40126 Bologna - ITALY
Tel - +39 051 2094187
Fax - +39 051 2094286
f.calboli at ucl.ac.uk
fcalboli at alma.unibo.it
