[R-sig-phylo] rooting multiple trees

2013-08-06 Thread SILVIA CALVO ARANDA
Hi! I want to root several trees in the same file to then use it for character reconstruction taking phylogenetic uncertainty into account. root() from ape package requires an object of class 'Phylo' but i can only import my dataset into 'multiPhylo'. i need to apply the root function to each

Re: [R-sig-phylo] rooting multiple trees

2013-08-06 Thread Liam J. Revell
Hi Silvia. Are you using outgroup rooting? If so, this should work with the following: trees-lapply(unclass(trees),root,outgroup=outgroupname) class(trees)-multiPhylo You can also give lapply any of the other arguments in root, for instance: