Re: [R-sig-phylo] Ancestral state estimates of continuous traits

2013-03-16 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Alejandro and Liam, You can also try method=REML which gives much better estimates of sigma^2 than ML. I think I'll make it the default for continuous characters. Best, Emmanuel -Original Message- From: Liam J. Revell liam.rev...@umb.edu Sender: r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org Date:

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Ancestral state estimates of continuous traits

2013-03-16 Thread Theodore Garland Jr
Yes, we have always used REML for this! Cheers, Ted From: r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org [r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org] on behalf of Emmanuel Paradis [emmanuel.para...@ird.fr] Sent: Friday, March 15, 2013 11:21 PM To: Liam J. Revell; r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org; Alejandro Gonzalez

[R-sig-phylo] parallelize diversitree

2013-03-16 Thread oscar inostroza
Hi all user Hello to all members, I write to ask if someone could guide me how to parallelize the program diversitree. This because I tried to run the function quasse, but it is computationally intensive. I have a MacPro with 12 cores, so what I would use all this capacity to perform these