Re: [R-sig-phylo] maximum parsimony ancestral reconstruction

2010-01-25 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Liam J. Revell wrote on 25/01/2010 05:09: Hi Sam, Santiago, To be clear, this procedure yields the squared-change parsimony ancestral states for a continuous character (see Maddison, 1991; Syst. Zool.). This will not provide MP ancestral state estimates for a discrete character, if this is

[R-sig-phylo] graphical editing of trees matrices

2010-01-25 Thread Wayne Maddison
Since this posting didn't get much of a response I thought I'd repeat it under a different subject line that may get more attention. There has been interest expressed in this list in being able to edit trees graphically; with the RMesquite package announced below that is possible. You can