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convevol (version 1.0)

Quantifies and assesses the significance of convergent evolution

Description

Quantifies and assesses the significance of convergent evolution.

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install.packages('convevol')

Monthly Downloads

439

Version

1.0

License

GPL-2

Maintainer

C Tristan Stayton

Last Published

December 22nd, 2014

Functions in convevol (1.0)

convnum

Quantify convergence by the number of convergent events
convratsig

Tests the signifiance of convergent evolution by the ratio of the current to maximum past phenotypic distance
maxdist

Calculates the maximum phenotypic distance between the lineages leading to a pair of taxa.
convrat

Quantify convergence by the ratio of the current to maximum past phenotypic distance
convnumsig

Assess the significance of convergent evolution using simulations and the convnum metric
labelstonumbers

Converts taxon names to tip/edge numbers
multianc

Reconstructs ancestral states for multiple characters
plotellipse

Plots an ellipse
allmaxdist

Calculates maxdist for all pairs of taxa in a phylogeny.
calcchanges

Calculates all phenotypic changes that occur on all branches of a phylogeny.
findanc

Find the ancestor of a given node in a phylogeny