Re: [R-sig-phylo] concatenating loci with different taxa

2016-11-20 Thread Karla Shikev
Dear all, Thanks a lot for all of you that responded, either directly or through the list. Long story short: once I converted all of my files to fasta, the comments to do concatenation worked like a charm. cheers, Karla On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 9:21 AM, Karla Shikev wrote: > > Dear all, > > I

Re: [R-sig-phylo] concatenating loci with different taxa

2016-11-18 Thread Klaus Schliep
Dear Karla, what is exactly the problem and what did you try? There is a (generic) function cbind for "phyDat" objects in phangorn, which should exactly do this task. library(phangorn) data(Laurasiatherian) (x1 <- subset(Laurasiatherian, 1:20)) (x2 <- subset(Laurasiatherian, 11:30)) cbind(x1, x2)

Re: [R-sig-phylo] concatenating loci with different taxa

2016-11-18 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Dear Karla, First, I suggest you manage your alignment files in FASTA rather than in NEXUS: this is much more efficient in practice. You may read an alignment in a NEXUS file using read.nexus.data() in ape, then convert it in "DNAbin" class with as.DNAbin(). The cbind() funtion in ape allows