Re: [R-sig-phylo] Simulate node ages given known topology

2011-04-10 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Andy, Andy Rominger wrote on 09/04/2011 08:37: Hello, I'm working with a friend on a problem where we'd like to simulate many possible trees that all have the same topology, but differ in branch lengths (or equivalently in node ages). We have a known age for the root, and all tips correspond

Re: [R-sig-phylo] chronopl

2011-04-10 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Rafael, You should not used the transformation suggested on this wiki (it is a bit outdated, NPRS has been removed from ape). In most situations, you should just leave S=1. chronopl() is not broken, but maybe not as reliable than Sanderson's r8s, though I have seen examples where both