[R-sig-phylo] Meaning of output from phytools findMRCA ?

2014-01-28 Thread Gabriel Yedid
Hi all, I'm trying to use picante and phytools in combination to analyze particular aspects of communities of digital organisms. I use picante to read in the data for community, trait, and phylogeny data, and make sure everything is matched up properly. My interest in using phytools (at least

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Meaning of output from phytools findMRCA ?

2014-01-28 Thread Liam J. Revell
Hi Gabriel. findMRCA in phytools should (if working properly) return the node number (index from the matrix edge in your object of class phylo) that is the MRCA of the set of tips you provide in the argument tips. To plot your tree with the node numbers, you can use: