Hi Sergio,

Sorry for being late to the party, but maybe expandTaxonTree in
paleotree does what you're looking for? I wrote it for turning trees
of genera into trees of species, with the resulting generic polytomies
collapsed or not (in case we know that the genera is paraphyletic).

Cheers,
-Dave

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Sergio Ferreira Cardoso
<sergio.ferreira-card...@umontpellier.fr> wrote:
> Thank you all for your suggestions. I guess the more direct way is to use
> Megaptera. I tried and it worked (I added Man cra1, Man cra2, etc.).
> However, I wanted it to create a new node that would basically include all
> these taxa. I sthere any way to merge all the added species in a new node?
> Thank you all, once again.
>
> ________________________________
>
> De: "Eliot Miller" <et...@cornell.edu>
> Para: "Christoph Heibl" <christoph.he...@gmx.net>
> Cc: "Liam Revell" <liam.rev...@umb.edu>, "r-sig-phylo"
> <r-sig-phylo@r-project.org>, "Sergio Ferreira Cardoso"
> <sergio.ferreira-card...@umontpellier.fr>
> Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 19 De Junho de 2017 14:40:15
> Assunto: Re: [R-sig-phylo] Add terminal branches to tree
>
> Just to add to the slew of other good options, I have a small package up on
> GitHub (https://github.com/eliotmiller/addTaxa/tree/master/R) that is
> basically a big loop around Liam's bind.tip. There are examples included
> with the package. The main function you'd be interested in is
> randomlyAddTaxa(). It works fairly well last I checked, but there are some
> limitations and the package is in need of an overhaul. The main limitation
> is when two clades (A and B) are sister to one another and you intend to add
> a taxon into the clade (A+B); it's currently impossible to generate the
> topology (C,(A,B)), even though that's monophyletic and shouldn't be
> prohibited. I aim to fix this at some point within the next month or two if
> anyone's interested.
> Eliot
>
> On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 8:30 AM, Christoph Heibl <christoph.he...@gmx.net>
> wrote:
>>
>> Another possibility would be addSingleTip() and addTips() from the
>> megaptera package (https://github.com/heibl/megaptera). The latter function
>> can add any number of tips; the loop that Liam mentioned is already build
>> into that function. This is potentially very slow, but for your tree size it
>> should work. Note that you have to specify the 'tax' argument; it allows you
>> to add tips also to internal nodes of higher rank than genera. In your case
>> where you have only genera you can create 'tax' easily like this:
>>
>> ## 'species' is a vector of tip labels that you want to add
>> ## will work only if your tip labels are of the form
>> "Genus_epithet-or-any-other-string"
>> library(megaptera)
>> tax <- data.frame(genus = strip.spec(species),
>>         species = species,
>>         stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
>>
>>
>>
>> Christoph Heibl
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>>
>>
>> Am 19.06.2017 um 14:06 schrieb Liam Revell:
>>
>> > The function add.species.to.genus may do what you want. It adds a single
>> > species to the group defined by the MRCA of members of a genus, according 
>> > to
>> > multiple criteria (randomly and so on). It can add only one species at a
>> > time, so you will need to write a for loop or something to iterate over the
>> > species that you‚d like to add.
>> >
>> > --
>> > Liam J. Revell, Associate Professor of Biology
>> > University of Massachusetts Boston
>> > web: http://faculty.umb.edu/liam.revell
>> > email: liam.rev...@umb.edu
>> >
>> > Sent from my Windows 10 phone
>> >
>> > From: Sergio Ferreira
>> > Cardoso<mailto:sergio.ferreira-card...@umontpellier.fr>
>> > Sent: Monday, June 19, 2017 6:58 AM
>> > To: r-sig-phylo<mailto:r-sig-phylo@r-project.org>
>> > Subject: [R-sig-phylo] Add terminal branches to tree
>> >
>> > Hello all,
>> >
>> > I'm using the package 'phytools' to try to add terminal branches to a
>> > tree (attached). I tried to use add.everywhere function to add terminal
>> > branches. I have 167 terminal taxa inside each of the 7 genera on my tree.
>> > Basically, I just wanted to add some dozens of specimens to the end of each
>> > branch, but I don't find a way to do it. Is there any tool that would allow
>> > me to do this? Like adding 30 branches to 'Phal', adding 25 to 'Phat', etc.
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance.
>> >
>> >
>> >
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