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Dear all, I wanted to let you know about four phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM) packages that have become available on (3 on CRAN and 1 on GitHub) recently that hopefully will be interesting to somebody. Three of them go significantly beyond the Brownian motion (BM) and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) processes. 1) There is a new version of mvSLOUCH available. The most important change is that the

Dear all, I wanted to let you know about four phylogenetic comparative methods (PCM) packages that have become available on (3 on CRAN and 1 on GitHub) recently that hopefully will be interesting to somebody. Three of them go significantly beyond the Brownian motion (BM) and Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) processes. 1) There is a new version of mvSLOUCH available. The most important change is that the

Hello, I am trying to carry out a phylogenetic autoregression to test whether my data show a phylogenetic signal, but I keep calculating bizzare R-squared values. My script is: > library(ape) > x <-

NESCent Hackathon on Comparative Methods in R Call for Participation and Input The R statistical analysis package has emerged as a popular platform for implementation of powerful comparative phylogenetic methods to understand the evolution of organismal traits. The National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent) is organizing a hackathon focused on the integration of

Can you recommend an R library that will help me create a diagram of a phylogenetic tree on which specific images are placed at appropriate nodes of the tree? For example, I have specific image files associated with each member of the phylogenetic tree, and I would like to automate the display of the image next to the correct node of the tree. I can provide an image file with an example.

Hi I am looking for a package that 1. reads in a phylogenetic tree in NEXUS format 2. given two members/nodes on the tree, can return the distance between the two using the tree. I came across the following packages on CRAN ouch, ape, apTreeShape, phylgr all of which seem to provide extensive range of functions for reading in a Nexus-format tree and performing phylogenetic analyses, tree

Dear moderator, If possible I would like to send in the following question for R-help: I am analyzing a small data set using PGLS with phylogenetic uncertainty taken into account and thereby including 100 potential phylogenetic tree scenarios. I've managed to run models on all of the different trees and performed model averaging to get parameter estimates for the intercept and most of the

Take a look at lmekin() in the coxme package. The motivating data set for my development of coxme was the Minnesota Family Breast Cancer project: 24050 subjects in 462 families. The random effect is an intercept per subject with sigma^2 K as its variance where K is the kinship matrix (1 for self-self, .5 for parent-child or sib-sib, .25 for uncle-neice, etc). lmekin is a linear models front

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

Hello R users, Can any one please help me to find a way to build phylogenetic tree by R program from any distance matrix. Suppose I have a data like : MATRIX [1] '1' 0.0 [2] '2' 0.071 0.0 [3] '3' 0.036 0.286 0.0 [4] '4' 0.429 0.75 0.714 0.0 [5] '5' 0.679 0.179 0.214 0.536 0.0 [6] '6' 0.893 0.929 0.964 0.464 0.357 0.0 [7]

Hello, I would like to place shaded boxes on different areas of a phylogenetic tree plot. Since I can not determine how to find axes on the phylogenetic tree plot I am not able to place the box over certain areas. Below is example code for the shaded box that I have tried to use, and the first four values specify the position. rect(110, 400, 135, 450, col="grey",

Hi, I'm trying to build a mixed-effects model in which I'd like to include either a distance matrix or a phylogenetic tree as a random effect. The troubles I've had are that: 1. Function lmer() in package lme4 only accepts a data frame column as a random factor and not a distance matrix. 2. Function MCMCglmm() in package MCMCglmm only accepts a rooted and ultrametric phylogenetic

friends, I need some tool to visualize the results of hierarchical clustering. Specifically, I want to plot it as a radial plot as a phylogenetic tree. In addition, I want to specify the color to each leaf node. I search all phylogenetic tree plotting routines here, they all cannot show the leaf nodes and their colors. Since i will have a lot of leaf nodes, the color needs to be specified and

Dear All, Please find a job description attached. Best wishes, Simon ** UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE Research Associate In Viral Phylodynamics Start date: Immediately Limit of Tenure: 3 years This post is funded by an MRC Methodology Research Programme grant, entitled 'Combining epidemiological and phylogenetic models of infectious disease dynamics'. The successful applicant will

Ape is an R package for "analyses of phylogenetics and evolution". The first version (0.1) has been released on 27 August 2002 and is available on CRAN. >From the 'Description' file of version 0.1: Ape provides functions for reading, and plotting phylogenetic trees in parenthetic format (standard Newick format), analyses of comparative data in a

Dear all, The version 1.0 of ape (analysis of phylogenetics and evolution) is now on CRAN. The jump from version 0.2-1 to 1.0 is explained by the fact that the initial objectives of the project have been completed. The relevant part of the Changes file is shown below. All comments, suggestions, or bug reports are welcome. Emmanuel Paradis CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.0 NEW FEATURES

Dear all, I don't understand the following behaviour: Running compar.gee (in library ape ) with and without the option 'data', it give me different results Example: .... Start R .... > load("eiber.RData") > ls() [1] "gee.na" "mydata" "mytree" > library(ape) > # runnig with the option data= mydata > compar.gee(alt ~ R,

Hello, Is it possible to include information about phylogenetic relatedness among species (when species are replicates for each study within a meta-analysis) in a meta-anlaysis in the metafor package? Alternatively, I wonder if the method f Lajeunesse 2009 American Naturalist has been adopted in R in any fashion? Thanks, Scott Chamberlain [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hello, My name is Sivan and I am a master degree student in statistics,my problem is as follows: I have a dataset containing gene sequences and I would like to create a phylogenetic tree from it. The problem that I can't seem to find a function to do this kind of operation. I read the ape package manual and I haven't found a command that takes raw data and turns it into a tree. does anyone

Hi all, I want to calculate distances between phylogenetic trees. I found functions for symmetric difference (e.g. in ape and in some other packages). In addition to this I also want to calculate quartets and nearest neighbor interchange distances; are there any functions for this? My apologies if they exist and I overlooked. best regards