Re: [R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies

2018-10-16 Thread Liam Kendall
Thank you both for your kind and helpful answers that have solved my problem! It is very much appreciated :) Best, Liam > On 17 Oct 2018, at 5:01 am, Liam J. Revell wrote: > > Hi Liam. > > First of all, great choice of names! > > Secondly, add.species.to.genus is a very old function & I

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies

2018-10-16 Thread Eliot Miller
> University of Oxford > > > > From: R-sig-phylo on behalf of Liam > J. Revell > Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2018 7:02 pm > To: Liam Kendall; r-sig-phylo@r-project.org > Subject: Re: [R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies

2018-10-16 Thread Richard Grenyer
: Re: [R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies Hi Liam. First of all, great choice of names! Secondly, add.species.to.genus is a very old function & I wouldn't be surprised to find that it had some bugs. Be forewarned! Thirdly, I used Will's suggestion & got the func

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies

2018-10-16 Thread Liam J. Revell
Hi Liam. First of all, great choice of names! Secondly, add.species.to.genus is a very old function & I wouldn't be surprised to find that it had some bugs. Be forewarned! Thirdly, I used Will's suggestion & got the function to work in the script you sent to me off-list, but with one

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies

2018-10-16 Thread William Gearty
This might be somewhat of a hacky solution, but could you just add "sp." to all of your genus names? The phytools function is looking for "Genus species" in your tree tip names, but none of your tips have binomials, so it's not finding the correct genus. By adding "sp." to all of your original tip

[R-sig-phylo] Adding species to genera tree as polytomies

2018-10-16 Thread Liam Kendall
Hi members, I am struggling with what I think is a relatively simple problem. I have a genera tree (i.e. genera are the branch tips) that I need to add 390 species to as polytomies with equal branch lengths below the genera tips/nodes. Can anyone help me do this in R? I have tried a for loop