Re: [R-sig-phylo] Substitute for functions on the laser package

2013-09-04 Thread Alejandro Gonzalez
Hi Mariana, If you want to test for time-varying rates of speciation in your phylogeny another suggestion would be to look at Hélène Morlon's studies (e.g. Morlon et al 2010 PLoS Biology and Morlon et al 2011 PNAS), she has code for R which allows you to test the fit of various models of

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Substitute for functions on the laser package

2013-09-04 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Hi Mariana, You may try the function bd.time in ape. The companion paper gives examples similar to what laser does. Best, Emmanuel -Original Message- From: Mariana Vasconcellos marian...@utexas.edu Sender: r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 23:20:17 To: Liam J.

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Substitute for functions on the laser package

2013-09-04 Thread Dan Rabosky
Hi all- Thanks for calling these issues to my attention. An updated version of laser should be on cran within the next few days (I just uploaded the package). Many thanks in particular to Klaus Schliep for fixing a number of dependency issues and for improving several of the functions.