timetree (version 1.0)

timetree-package: Interface to the TimeTree of Life Webpage

Description

A interface to the TimeTree of Life Webpage (www.timetree.org). TimeTree is a public database for information on the evolutionary timescale of life. This package includes functions for searching divergence time for taxa or all nodes of a phylogeny.

Details

Package:

timetree

Type:

Package

Version:

1.0

Date:

2015-04-11

License:

GPL (>= 2)

References

http://www.timetree.org

Hedges SB., Dudley J. & Kumar S. (2006) TimeTree: a public knowledge-base of divergence times among organisms. Bioinformatics 22:2971-2972

Examples

# timetree(taxa=c("Boletales", "Agaricales"))
# timetree(taxa=c("fungi", "plants"))