Re: [R-sig-phylo] read.nexus.data parser

2013-04-07 Thread Ben Bolker
On 13-04-05 01:29 PM, Jessica Sabo wrote: Hi All, I am wondering if there is anyway to increase the speed of the read.nexus.data parser. Or if there is an alternative that is a faster nexus file data parser. THanks, Jess I don't know if it's faster or not, but there is ?readNexus in

[R-sig-phylo] statistically test whether two characters evolve dependently

2013-04-07 Thread New Bio
Dear all, Just started studying phylogeny. I know BayesTraits program can calculate the likelihood of the observed data given the model of two charaters evolve dependently or independently. I am wondering how to do it with R packages or functions for discrete and continuous characters? Best,

Re: [R-sig-phylo] transform nexus SETS block into treefinder partition

2013-04-07 Thread Rob Lanfear
Hi John, I don't have a simple solution for this in R (although I'm sure there is one), but we will add this as an output option in PartitionFinder in future releases. If you have no luck here (the question is a bit off topic for this list), try posting on Stack Overflow. Rob On 4 April 2013