Hi Alanna,
You can get this kind of error if your tree has tip edges with zero
length. Then C<-vcv.phylo(tree) will be exactly singular. Could this
be true of your tree?
Best, Liam
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On 5/17/2011 11:23 AM, Alanna Maltby wrote:
Dear all
I've been trying to use Maximum Likelihood to estimate ancestral
characters using ace in APE, but I get an error:
?Error in solve.default(out$hessian) :
Lapack routine dgesv: system is exactly singular?
My code looks like this:
tree<-read.nexus("tree.nex")
data<-read.csv("data.csv")
BW<-data.frame(data[,c(2,3)])
rownames(BW)<-data[,2]
na.omit(BW)->BW
name.check(tree,BW)->overlap
drop.tip(tree,overlap$Tree.not.data)->tree2
tree3<-multi2di(tree2)
BW2<-BW[tree3$tip.label,]
BW3<-data.frame(BW2[,2])
as.matrix(BW3)->BWM
as.vector(BWM)->BWV
names(BWV)<-BW2[,1]
asrBW<-ace(BWV, tree3, type="continuous")
asrBW$ace
which is possibly not super-elegant, but works when I use pic instead of
ML.
I notice that someone brought up the same problem last year but there
were no solutions. Any ideas?
Many thanks,
Alanna
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