Claddis
Measuring Morphological Diversity and Evolutionary Tempo
Description
Measures morphological diversity from discrete character data and estimates evolutionary tempo on phylogenetic trees. Imports morphological data from #NEXUS (Maddison et al. (1997) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/46.4.590>) format with read_nexus_matrix(), and writes to both #NEXUS and TNT format (Goloboff et al. (2008) <doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00217.x>). Main functions are test_rates(), which implements AIC and likelihood ratio tests for discrete character rates introduced across Lloyd et al. (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2011.01460.x>, Brusatte et al. (2014) <doi:10.1016/j.cub.2014.08.034>, Close et al. (2015) <doi:10.1016/j.cub.2015.06.047>, and Lloyd (2016) <doi:10.1111/bij.12746>, and calculate_morphological_distances(), which implements multiple discrete character distance metrics from Gower (1971) <doi:10.2307/2528823>, Wills (1998) <doi:10.1006/bijl.1998.0255>, Lloyd (2016) <doi:10.1111/bij.12746>, and Hopkins and St John (2018) <doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.1784>. This also includes the GED correction from Lehmann et al. (2019) <doi:10.1111/pala.12430>. Multiple functions implement morphospace plots: plot_chronophylomorphospace() implements Sakamoto and Ruta (2012) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0039752>, plot_morphospace() implements Wills et al. (1994) <doi:10.1017/S009483730001263X>, plot_changes_on_tree() implements Wang and Lloyd (2016) <doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.0214>, and plot_morphospace_stack() implements Foote (1993) <doi:10.1017/S0094837300015864>. Other functions include safe_taxonomic_reduction(), which implements Wilkinson (1995) <doi:10.1093/sysbio/44.4.501>, map_dollo_changes() implements the Dollo stochastic character mapping of Tarver et al. (2018) <doi:10.1093/gbe/evy096>, and estimate_ancestral_states() implements the ancestral state options of Lloyd (2018) <doi:10.1111/pala.12380>. calculate_tree_length() and reconstruct_ancestral_states() implements the generalised algorithms from Swofford and Maddison (1992; no doi).
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Code
Structure
Lines of code
26,296
Files
195
Compiled share
0%
Has compiled src
No
Language breakdown
API
Exported functions
88
Internal functions
0
Recent export changes
Testing & CI
Has tests
Yes
Test-to-code ratio
0.00
testthat edition
–
CI present
No
CI type
[]
PR gated
No
Docs
Return-value doc rate
88.6%
\dontrun example ratio
5.6%
Roxygen coverage
100%
Has pkgdown
No
NEWS present
No
Health & Security signals
Informational signals; not verdicts.
on.exit coverage
0%
Unsafe pattern score
9
Dep constraint coverage
0%
Secret pattern count
0
Bundled 3rd-party code
2 items
Portability & License
Min R version
3.5.0
System requirements
–
C++ standard
–
License
GPL (>= 2)
License flags
SPDX valid, OSI approved
History
Versions
6
First release
2015-04-27
Latest release
2024-09-03
Avg cadence
296 days
Cold removal rate
100%
Dep drift
10
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