I'll definitely check it out. Thanks, Eliot! On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 5:11 PM Eliot Miller <eliot.is...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Karla, > > Check out the addTaxa package I wrote a while back ( > https://github.com/eliotmiller/addTaxa). I suspect it can do what you > want. We hope to publish some formal tests of how this approach performs, > but I've been sidetracked. In the meantime if you use it there's the > original reference in the literature to it ( > https://bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.3732/ajb.1500195). To > get it running you would need to install the legacy version of laser from > the CRAN repository on GitHub using devtools. That won't always be the > case, but I ran out of time to complete the project and it's currently a > dependency. > > Best wishes, > Eliot > > On Tue, Sep 24, 2019 at 5:42 PM Karla Shikev <karlashi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Dear all, >> >> Some time ago, Liam Revell kindly provided the code that is now >> incorporated into phytools in the add.species.to.genus function, which >> randomly adds an additional species to a genus on a phylogeny. However, >> this function either adds a species to the root node, or to the branches >> after the MRCA of all species in a genus. >> >> Can anyone envision a way in which it would also be possible to add tips >> to >> the branch between the root and the MRCA of all species in a clade? >> Preferably in a way that could be analogous to a model of diversification >> (e.g. pure birth)? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Karla >> >> [[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/
