Abstract
Summary 1. Here, I present a new, multifunctional phylogenetics package, phytools, for the R statistical computing environment. 2. The focus of the package is on methods for phylogenetic comparative biology; however, it also includes tools for tree inference, phylogeny input/output, plotting, manipulation and several other tasks. 3. I describe and tabulate the major methods implemented in phytools, and in addition provide some demonstration of its use in the form of two illustrative examples. 4. Finally, I conclude by briefly describing an active web‐log that I use to document present and future developments for phytools. I also note other web resources for phylogenetics in the R computational environment.
Keywords
PhylogeneticsPhylogenetic treeR packageComputer scienceInferenceComparative biologyFocus (optics)Statistical inferenceData scienceTree (set theory)Evolutionary biologyBiologyComputational biologyTheoretical computer scienceArtificial intelligenceMathematicsStatisticsProgramming languageGenetics
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Liam J. Revell
(2011).
phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things).
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
, 3
(2)
, 217-223.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00169.x
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