phylo.toBackbone

backbone.toPhylo

Converts between <code>"phylo"</code> and <code>"backbonePhylo"</code>.

phylogenetics

plotting

A wide range of methods for phylogenetic analysis - concentrated in phylogenetic comparative biology, but also including numerous techniques for visualizing, analyzing, manipulating, reading or writing, and even inferring phylogenetic trees. Included among the functions in phylogenetic comparative biology are various for ancestral state reconstruction, model-fitting, and simulation of phylogenies and trait data. A broad range of plotting methods for phylogenies and comparative data include (but are not restricted to) methods for mapping trait evolution on trees, for projecting trees into phenotype space or a onto a geographic map, and for visualizing correlated speciation between trees. Lastly, numerous functions are designed for reading, writing, analyzing, inferring, simulating, and manipulating phylogenetic trees and comparative data. For instance, there are functions for computing consensus phylogenies from a set, for simulating phylogenetic trees and data under a range of models, for randomly or non-randomly attaching species or clades to a tree, as well as for a wide range of other manipulations and analyses that phylogenetic biologists might find useful in their research.

Liam Revell

phytools

Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

phylo.toBackbone function

<dl>	<dt>x</dt>
<dd>an object of class <code>"phylo"</code> (for the function <code>phylo.toBackbone</code>), or an object of the special class <code>"backbonePhylo"</code> (for <code>backbone.toPhylo</code>).</dd>	<dt>trans</dt>
<dd>data frame containing the attributes necessary to translate a backbone tree to an object of class <code>"backbonePhylo"</code>. The data frame should contain the following variables: <code>tip.label</code>: the tip labels in the input tree (not all need be included); <code>clade.label</code>: labels for the unobserved subtrees; <code>N</code>: number of species in each subtree; and <code>depth</code>: desired depth of each subtree. <code>depth</code> for each terminal taxon in <code>x</code> cannot be greater than the terminal edge length for that taxon.</dd>	<dt>...</dt>
<dd>optional arguments.</dd></dl>

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Liam Revell <a href="/link/liam.revell%40umb.edu?package=phytools&version=2.1-1" data-mini-rdoc="phytools::liam.revell@umb.edu">liam.revell@umb.edu</a>

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Converts tree to backbone or vice versa — phylo.toBackbone

<dl>

	<dt>x</dt>
<dd>an object of class <code>"phylo"</code> (for the function <code>phylo.toBackbone</code>), or an object of the special class <code>"backbonePhylo"</code> (for <code>backbone.toPhylo</code>).</dd>

	<dt>trans</dt>
<dd>data frame containing the attributes necessary to translate a backbone tree to an object of class <code>"backbonePhylo"</code>. The data frame should contain the following variables: <code>tip.label</code>: the tip labels in the input tree (not all need be included); <code>clade.label</code>: labels for the unobserved subtrees; <code>N</code>: number of species in each subtree; and <code>depth</code>: desired depth of each subtree. <code>depth</code> for each terminal taxon in <code>x</code> cannot be greater than the terminal edge length for that taxon.</dd>

	<dt>...</dt>
<dd>optional arguments.</dd>

</dl>

Liam Revell <a href='mailto:liam.revell@umb.edu'>liam.revell@umb.edu</a>

phylo.toBackbone: Converts tree to backbone or vice versa

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