Re: [R-sig-phylo] Trouble with a phylogenetic independent contrast

2011-04-11 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Dear Simon, Simon Maccracken Stump wrote on 09/04/2011 00:37: Dear everyone, Good morning. I have been trying to run a phylogenetic independent contrast in R using Phylocom, using a tree from Phylomatic. I am having some difficulty, and was wondering if anyone could help. Here is what I

Re: [R-sig-phylo] chronopl

2011-04-11 Thread Hilmar Lapp
Hi Emmanuel: On Apr 11, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Emmanuel Paradis wrote: You should not used the transformation suggested on this wiki (it is a bit outdated, NPRS has been removed from ape).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. The wiki can be updated (by anyone, in fact). How would

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

2011-04-11 Thread Andy Rominger
Hi Emmanuel, Many thanks for your suggestions. I think a group of us at Berkeley would be very interested in working out different ways to simulate these processes and then share our results. We'll keep you posted. I think starting with rcoal and compute.brlen would be a great jumping off

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

2011-04-11 Thread Hunt, Gene
Hi Andy, Brian Sidlauskas did this in an Evolution paper in 2008 (based on Yang and Rannala 1997): Sidlauskas, Brian L. 2008. Continuous and arrested morphological diversification in sister clades of characiform fishes: a phylomorphospace approach. Evolution 62(12): 3135-3156. He had a

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

2011-04-11 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Hi Andy, Andy Rominger wrote on 11/04/2011 23:04: Hi Emmanuel, Many thanks for your suggestions. I think a group of us at Berkeley would be very interested in working out different ways to simulate these processes and then share our results. We'll keep you posted. I think starting with