convevol (version 0.1-1)

multianc: Reconstructs ancestral states for multiple characters

Description

Uses fastAnc to reconstruct ancestral states for multiple phenotypic characters

Usage

multianc(phyl, phendata)

Arguments

phyl

The phylogeny of interest in phylo format

phendata

Phenotypic data for all tips

Value

• A matrix with the tips data in the first n rows and the ancestral data in the remaining n-1 rows.

Details

None

References

Paradis, E., J. Claude, and K. Strimmer (2004) APE: Analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R langauge. Bioinformatics, 20, 289-290. Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol. 3 217-223.

Examples

phyl<-rtree(10)

phendata<-fastBM(phyl,nsim=2)

ancs<-multianc(phyl,phendata)