Re: [R-sig-phylo] simulate Ne changes on a given phylogeny

2015-10-21 Thread Jacob Berv
On a related note- does anyone know of a function or package that can parse and store all of the metadata associated with nodes and branches from a BEAST output file? read.beast from phyloch will parse all of the data associated with internal nodes, but not with terminal branches (for example,

[R-sig-phylo] Q regarding the analysis of ordinal meristic traits such as lamellae number

2015-10-21 Thread Mozes Blom
Dear R-sig-phylo, I am fairly novice to the field of phylogenetic comparative methods and I was hoping to gain some advice regarding the study of ordinal (pseudo-continuous) morphological data. I am currently studying morphological convergence associated with habitat transitions in Australian