tree_from_taxonomy

This uses the taxize package's wrapper of the Global Names Resolver to get taxonomic paths for the vector of taxa you pass in. Sources is a vector of source labels in order (though it works best if everything uses the same taxonomy, so we recommend doing just one source). You can see options by doing taxize::gnr_datasources(). Our default is Catalogue of Life. The output is a phylo object (typically with many singleton nodes if collapse_singles is FALSE: nodes with only one descendant (like "Homo" having "Homo sapiens" as its only descendant) but these singletons typically have node.labels

Methods and workflows to get chronograms (i.e., phylogenetic trees with branch lengths
proportional to time), using open, peer-reviewed, state-of-the-art scientific data on time of lineage divergence.
This package constitutes the main underlying code of the DateLife web service
at <https://www.datelife.org>. To obtain a single summary chronogram from a group of
relevant chronograms, we implement the Super Distance Matrix (SDM) method
described in Criscuolo et al. (2006) <doi:10.1080/10635150600969872>.
To find the grove of chronograms with a sufficiently overlapping set of taxa
for summarizing, we implement theorem 1.1. from Ané et al. (2009)
<doi:10.1007/s00026-009-0017-x>.
A given phylogenetic tree can be dated using time of lineage divergence data
as secondary calibrations (with caution, see Schenk (2016) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0148228>).
To obtain and apply secondary calibrations, the package implements the congruification method described
in Eastman et al. (2013) <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12051>. Tree dating can be performed with different methods
including BLADJ (Webb et al. (2008) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn358>), PATHd8
(Britton et al. (2007) <doi:10.1080/10635150701613783>), mrBayes (Huelsenbeck
and Ronquist (2001) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/17.8.754>), and treePL (Smith
and O'Meara (2012) <doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts492>).

Luna L. Sanchez Reyes

datelife

Scientific Data on Time of Lineage Divergence for Your Taxa

Brian O'Meara

Jonathan Eastman

Tracy Heath

April Wright

Klaus Schliep

Scott Chamberlain

Peter Midford

Luke Harmon

Joseph Brown

Matt Pennell

Mike Alfaro

Emily Jane McTavish

tree_from_taxonomy function

<dl><dt>taxa</dt>
<dd>Vector of taxon names</dd>
<dt>sources</dt>
<dd>Vector of names of preferred sources; see taxize::gnr_datasources(). Currently supports 100 taxonomic resources, see details.</dd>
<dt>collapse_singles</dt>
<dd>If true, collapses singleton nodes</dd></dl>

Arguments

Gets a taxonomic tree from a vector of taxa — tree_from_taxonomy

<dl>

<dt>taxa</dt>
<dd>Vector of taxon names</dd>


<dt>sources</dt>
<dd>Vector of names of preferred sources; see taxize::gnr_datasources(). Currently supports 100 taxonomic resources, see details.</dd>


<dt>collapse_singles</dt>
<dd>If true, collapses singleton nodes</dd>

</dl>

Gets a taxonomic tree from a vector of taxa

tree_from_taxonomy: Gets a taxonomic tree from a vector of taxa

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