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Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution

v5.8-1 · Dec 15, 2024 · GPL-2 | GPL-3

Description

Functions for reading, writing, plotting, and manipulating phylogenetic trees, analyses of comparative data in a phylogenetic framework, ancestral character analyses, analyses of diversification and macroevolution, computing distances from DNA sequences, reading and writing nucleotide sequences as well as importing from BioConductor, and several tools such as Mantel's test, generalized skyline plots, graphical exploration of phylogenetic data (alex, trex, kronoviz), estimation of absolute evolutionary rates and clock-like trees using mean path lengths and penalized likelihood, dating trees with non-contemporaneous sequences, translating DNA into AA sequences, and assessing sequence alignments. Phylogeny estimation can be done with the NJ, BIONJ, ME, MVR, SDM, and triangle methods, and several methods handling incomplete distance matrices (NJ*, BIONJ*, MVR*, and the corresponding triangle method). Some functions call external applications (PhyML, Clustal, T-Coffee, Muscle) whose results are returned into R.

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Reverse Dependencies (388)

imports

AnnotationBustR AntibodyForests Apoderoides BAT BIEN BOLDconnectR BoSSA CALANGO CRABS CoalescentPhylo CommEcol DAISIEprep DAMOCLES DCLEAR DDD DHARMa EnvNJ EpiModel EvoPhylo FishPhyloMaker FossilSim FuncDiv GIFT GOCompare GUniFrac HACSim Hmsc HybridMicrobiomes LorMe MACER MAGNAMWAR ML.MSBD MethEvolSIM MiscMetabar MorphSim MultiTraits NST OmicFlow PBD PCMBase PCPS PNC POMS POSTm PVR PhySortR QsRutils Quartet RAINBOWR RPesto RRPP RRgeo RRphylo RevGadgets Revticulate Rogue Rsearch Rtropical SPARTAAS STEPCAM STraTUS SVAlignR SemanticDistance ShiVa SiPhyNetwork Sysrecon TBRDist TML TSLA TreeDiagram TreeDist TreeSearch TreeSimGM VIProDesign Xplortext aPCoA abdiv adaptiveGPCA adegenet adephylo adiv admtools alakazam aqp arakno autoGO avotrex beastier beautier betapart bifrost bioregion bioseq bivariatemaps bnpsd canaper chemodiv cloneRate colordistance concatipede copyseparator covid19.analytics dartR dartR.base dartR.popgen ddtlcm debar deepSTRAPP divent do3PCA dowser e2tree ecoregime entropart epm evolqg evolvability evolved file2meco fishtree funspace genBaRcode geomorph ggmuller glinvci gpyramid gquad haplotypes harrietr heattree hillR holobiont homals iCAMP iCellR iNEXT.3D iNEXT.beta3D idar immunarch indelmiss inecolr insect ipADMIXTURE itol.toolkit jackalope longreadvqs mFD markophylo metacoder microeco mmodely msaR multilaterals mvSLOUCH mycolorsTB nLTT nodiv numbat ontophylo oppr orthGS outbreaker2 palaeoverse pcmabc phyext2 phylepic phyloatlas phylobase phylocanvas phylogram phylopairs phylopath phyloraster phyloregion phylosem phylosignal phylosignalDB phylospatial phylter phymapnet phyr piglet pooledpeaks poolfstat popkin poppr poweRbal ppgm prepR4pcm primerTree prioritizr qlcData rKOMICS rapidphylo ratematrix rbiom recluster refdb restez rhierbaps rotl rphylo rphylopic rr2 rrnni rtrees scistreer secsse sharpshootR shazam shinyTempSignal shinyWGD sidier slendr slouch spANOVA spider strollur stylo tabs tapnet taxize tbea tidytree treeDA treebalance treesliceR treestats treestructure vcfR yatah

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies nlme lattice Rcpp digest Anaconda BAMMtools BarcodingR Claddis FD JNplots MCMCglmm MPSEM MSCquartets MSCsimtester MonoPhy OUwie PhylogeneticEM RNeXML Rphylopars +373 more reverse deps ape

Version History

105 tracked
new 5.8-1 Mar 10, 2026
updated 5.8-1 ← 5.8 diff Dec 15, 2024
updated 5.8 ← 5.7-1 diff Apr 10, 2024
updated 5.7-1 ← 5.7 diff Mar 12, 2023
updated 5.7 ← 5.6-2 diff Feb 15, 2023
updated 5.6-2 ← 5.6-1 diff Mar 1, 2022
updated 5.6-1 ← 5.6 diff Jan 6, 2022
updated 5.6 ← 5.5 diff Dec 20, 2021
updated 5.5 ← 5.4-1 diff Apr 24, 2021
updated 5.4-1 ← 5.4 diff Aug 12, 2020
updated 5.4 ← 5.3 diff Jun 2, 2020
updated 5.3 ← 5.2 diff Mar 16, 2019
updated 5.2 ← 5.1 diff Sep 23, 2018
updated 5.1 ← 5.0 diff Apr 4, 2018
updated 5.0 ← 4.1 diff Oct 29, 2017