ape (version 3.0-3)

read.caic: Read Tree File in CAIC Format

Description

This function reads one tree from a CAIC file. A second file containing branch lengths values may also be passed (experimental).

Usage

read.caic(file, brlen = NULL, skip = 0, comment.char = "#", ...)

Arguments

Value

an object of class "phylo" with the following components:edgea two-column matrix of mode character where each row represents an edge of the tree; the nodes and the tips are symbolized with numbers (these numbers are not treated as numeric, hence the mode character); the nodes are represented with negative numbers (the root being "-1"), and the tips are represented with positive numbers. For each row, the first column gives the ancestor. This representation allows an easy manipulation of the tree, particularly if it is rooted.edge.lengtha numeric vector giving the lengths of the branches given by edge.tip.labela vector of mode character giving the names of the tips; the order of the names in this vector corresponds to the (positive) number in edge.node.label(optional) a vector of mode character giving the names of the nodes (set to NULL if not available in the file).root.edge(optional) a numeric value giving the length of the branch at the root is it exists (NULL otherwise).

Warning

The branch length support is still experimental and was not fully tested.

Details

Read a tree from a file in the format used by the CAIC and MacroCAIc program.

References

Purvis, A. and Rambaut, A. (1995) Comparative analysis by independent contrasts (CAIC): an Apple Macintosh application for analysing comparative data. CABIOS, 11 :241--251.

See Also

read.tree, read.nexus

Examples

Run this code
### The same example than in read.tree, without branch lengths.
### An extract from Sibley and Ahlquist (1990)
cat("AAA","Strix_aluco","AAB","Asio_otus",
   "AB","Athene_noctua","B","Tyto_alba",
   file = "ex.tre", sep = "")
tree.owls <- read.caic("ex.tre")
plot(tree.owls)
tree.owls
unlink("ex.tre") # delete the file "ex.tre"

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