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

2013-04-09 Thread Johan Nylander
Dear All, Just to avoid confusion, the readNexus function is in the phylobase package. And as Ben pointed out, other packages have their own functions for reading the data part from a nexus-formatted file, see e.g., read.nex in phyloch. On a related note, I wrote read.nexus.data as a temporary,

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

2013-04-09 Thread Klaus Schliep
Hi all, I had a short look in the code and found some bits to speed the read.nexus.data function up. I added Emmanuel on the list so he may can put it into the next ape release if it does work. Generally I agree with Johan that if speed matters fasta files are the way to go. Nexus files are ugly

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