OK, I think I've figured out what the trouble is, it's a problem with
the way the input Nexus files are being written.  The trouble is with
the data in the translation table.  If I extract the Newick tree
structure by itself, without the translation labels, the tree can be
read and processed normally (though of course the tip labels are
anonymous now).

Is there some way of getting read.nexus() to ignore the translation table?

cheers,

Gabe


On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 7:03 PM, Gabriel Yedid <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm having a curious problem in that I have trees that seem to have
> more nodes than tips.  They're part of a time series of trees (not
> generated with an R package) that I'm reading in and doing tree shape
> analyses of.  Not all of the trees have this problem, but once it
> crops up it persists in all trees generated after that point.
>
> The tree file (in Nexus format) is read in OK, but when I try to plot it I 
> see:
>
>>    plot(INTREE, show.tip.label=FALSE)
> Error in plot.phylo(INTREE, show.tip.label = FALSE) :
>   tree badly conformed; cannot plot. Check the edge matrix.
>>    summary(INTREE)
>
> Phylogenetic tree: INTREE
>
>   Number of tips: 5796
>   Number of nodes: 5797
>   Branch lengths:
>     mean: 9.617864
>     variance: 149.9489
>     distribution summary:
>    Min. 1st Qu.  Median 3rd Qu.    Max.
>   0.000   2.480   6.213  12.740 188.200
>   Root edge: 17.5434
>   First ten tip labels: taxa_1000
>                         taxa_10001
>                         taxa_10002
>                         taxa_10003
>                         taxa_10004
>                         taxa_10005
>                         taxa_10006
>                         taxa_10008
>                         taxa_10009
>                         taxa_10019
>   No node labels.
>
> And when I try to drop all of the extinct tips of the tree, all tips
> are dropped!
>
> What could be causing this behaviour?  How can it be fixed (in R)?
>
> cheers,
>
> Gabe

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