For as.alignment
, the sequences given as argument should be
stored as matrices or lists of single-character strings (the format
used in ape before version 1.10). The returned object is in the
format used in the package seqinr to store aligned sequences. as.DNAbin
is a generic function with methods so that it works
with sequences stored into vectors, matrices, or lists.
as.character
is a generic function: the present method
converts objects of class "DNAbin"
into the format used
before ape 1.10 (matrix of single characters, or list of vectors
of single characters). This function must be used first to convert
objects of class "DNAbin"
into the class "alignment"
.