Hi all,
I would like to take taxonomic groupings of species and produce a phylo
(phylo4, etc.) object. Does anyone have any suggestions on where to
start or has written a script that I could edit to work with my data?
Below is an example of the data.
Thank you!
Matt
The data are in order
Dear Matt,
You can do the following:
library(vegan)
taxdis - taxa2dist(YOUR_TAXONOMIC_DATASET)
the taxonomic dataset object is a data frame with species names at
rownames and columns for identifiers of its classification at higher
levels (genus,
family,order kingdom) ordered from left to
Me again:
Surfing on the web I followed another way to convert taxonomy variables to
phylo trees
http://rgm2.lab.nig.ac.jp/RGM2/func.php?rd_id=ape:as.phylo.formula
:)
Cheers!
On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Marcus Cianciaruso cianciar...@gmail.comwrote:
Dear Matt,
You can do the
