Re: [R-sig-phylo] Concatenation of character matrices

2013-03-20 Thread Liam J. Revell
Hi Thomas. For just two matrices (say, A & B), this is easy: aa<-sort(unique(c(rownames(A),rownames(B bb<-sort(unique(c(colnames(A),colnames(B XX<-matrix(NA,length(aa),length(bb),dimnames=list(aa,bb)) XX[rownames(A),colnames(B)]<-A XX[rownames(B),colnames(B)]<-B There may be some easier

[R-sig-phylo] Concatenation of character matrices

2013-03-20 Thread thom.g
Hi, I have a certain number of character matrices that I want to merge together but unfortunately all the matrices don't have the same number of taxa and characters. However there is always more than one character/taxa in common between each matrix. I have something like that: TaxaCharacte