Dear list, I would like to construct a neighbor-joining tree from a data set in which each taxon is characterized by a vector of integers ranging from 0 to 5. I would like to treat these as unordered characters, i.e. assuming that the likelihood of transitioning from 0 to 1 is the same as transitioning from 0 to 5. For this, I would need some kind of "equal or not" distance function which increases the distance between two taxa by one for each dimension that differs, regardless of its magnitude.
Is such a distance function already implemented anywhere or is it easiest to create one for myself? Many thanks. Kamila _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/
