Thank you all for the kind suggestions! I installed laser from the source, since it was not showing in the CRAN repository, however, I just updated to the new R version and laser is now showing there. I am looking into other possibilities as well. Thank you!
---------------------- Mariana On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:02 AM, Dan Rabosky <drabo...@umich.edu> wrote: > > Hi all- > > Thanks for calling these issues to my attention. An updated version of laser > should be on cran within the next few days (I just uploaded the package). > > Many thanks in particular to Klaus Schliep for fixing a number of dependency > issues and for improving several of the functions. Klaus, I apologize for > missing your original email that included your fixes (I was in the field > without email for an extended period of time earlier this year and missed a > number of messages that arrived during that time). > > A comprehensive revision of the package is underway, but the version I just > uploaded largely maintains the functionality of the package as it existed > before being kicked off of CRAN a few months ago. > > ~Dan Rabosky > > > > > > On Sep 4, 2013, at 6:20 AM, Emmanuel Paradis wrote: > >> Hi Mariana, >> >> You may try the function bd.time in ape. The companion paper gives examples >> similar to what laser does. >> >> Best, >> >> Emmanuel >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Mariana Vasconcellos <marian...@utexas.edu> >> Sender: r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org >> Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 23:20:17 >> To: Liam J. Revell<liam.rev...@umb.edu> >> Cc: <r-sig-phylo@r-project.org> >> Subject: Re: [R-sig-phylo] Substitute for functions on the laser package >> >> Thanks, Liam! But, unfortunately I don't know how to build from source. I >> downloaded Xcode and the laser_2.3.tar.gz. But, I have no idea of how to >> install from source. If someone could help with any advise, that would be >> great! Also, does anyone have another option to calculate decreasing >> speciation rate, increasing extinction rate or both using a different >> package? >> >> Thank you very much! >> >> ---------------------- >> Mariana Vasconcellos >> Ecology, Evolution & Behavior >> Integrative Biology >> The University of Texas at Austin >> >> >> >> >> On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:05 PM, Liam J. Revell <liam.rev...@umb.edu> wrote: >> >>> Hi Mariana. >>> >>> You can download old versions of laser from the CRAN archive >>> (http://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/laser/); however you will >>> have to build from source. This is easy if you have Xcode (for Mac OS) or a >>> gcc compiler installed. If you do not, and cannot figure out how to install >>> from source, then respond to the list & I'm sure someone will help out & >>> post a package binary for you. >>> >>> - Liam >>> >>> Liam J. Revell, Assistant Professor of Biology >>> University of Massachusetts Boston >>> web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell/ >>> email: liam.rev...@umb.edu >>> blog: http://blog.phytools.org >>> >>> On 9/3/2013 10:39 PM, Mariana Vasconcellos wrote: >>>> Dear all: >>>> I just performed a test of the gamma-statistic on my tree and I found that >>>> diversification is not constant in time. So, I would like to perform the >>>> function fitSPVAR, fitEXVAR and fitBOTHVAR using the laser package. But, I >>>> just saw that the laser package was removed from the CRAN repository. >>>> Could anyone tell me what other alternative package I could use to develop >>>> and test models of decreasing speciation rate, increasing extinction rate >>>> or both? Does MEDUSA do this sort of analyses? >>>> >>>> Thank you for your help! >>>> Mariana >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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/ >>>> >> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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/ > > _____________________ > Dan Rabosky > Assistant Professor & Curator of Herpetology > Museum of Zoology & > Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology > University of Michigan > Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079 USA > > drabo...@umich.edu > http://www-personal.umich.edu/~drabosky > http://www.lsa.umich.edu/ummz/ > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ 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/
