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phytools

Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

v2.5-2 · Sep 18, 2025 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

A wide range of methods for phylogenetic analysis - concentrated in phylogenetic comparative biology, but also including numerous techniques for visualizing, analyzing, manipulating, reading or writing, and even inferring phylogenetic trees. Included among the functions in phylogenetic comparative biology are various for ancestral state reconstruction, model-fitting, and simulation of phylogenies and trait data. A broad range of plotting methods for phylogenies and comparative data include (but are not restricted to) methods for mapping trait evolution on trees, for projecting trees into phenotype space or a onto a geographic map, and for visualizing correlated speciation between trees. Lastly, numerous functions are designed for reading, writing, analyzing, inferring, simulating, and manipulating phylogenetic trees and comparative data. For instance, there are functions for computing consensus phylogenies from a set, for simulating phylogenetic trees and data under a range of models, for randomly or non-randomly attaching species or clades to a tree, as well as for a wide range of other manipulations and analyses that phylogenetic biologists might find useful in their research.

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Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies ape maps clusterGeneration coda combinat DEoptim doParallel expm foreach MASS mnormt nlme numDeriv optimParallel phangorn +1 more dependencies Claddis MonoPhy Rtapas bayou convevol geiger mvMORPH treestartr windex BAT DDD FishPhyloMaker GIFT OUwie PBD +48 more reverse deps phytools

Version History

new 2.5-2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 2.5-2 ← 2.4-4 diff Sep 18, 2025
updated 2.4-4 ← 2.3-0 diff Jan 7, 2025
updated 2.3-0 ← 2.1-1 diff Jun 13, 2024
updated 2.1-1 ← 2.0-3 diff Jan 8, 2024
updated 2.0-3 ← 1.9-16 diff Nov 8, 2023
updated 1.9-16 ← 1.5-1 diff Jul 13, 2023
updated 1.5-1 ← 1.2-0 diff Feb 18, 2023
updated 1.2-0 ← 1.0-3 diff Aug 31, 2022
updated 1.0-3 ← 1.0-1 diff Apr 4, 2022
updated 1.0-1 ← 0.7-90 diff Jan 2, 2022
updated 0.7-90 ← 0.7-80 diff Sep 24, 2021
updated 0.7-80 ← 0.7-70 diff Jun 2, 2021
updated 0.7-70 ← 0.7-47 diff Sep 19, 2020
updated 0.7-47 ← 0.7-20 diff May 31, 2020
updated 0.7-20 ← 0.6-99 diff Mar 18, 2020
updated 0.6-99 ← 0.6-60 diff Jun 17, 2019
updated 0.6-60 ← 0.6-44 diff Sep 27, 2018
updated 0.6-44 ← 0.6-20 diff Nov 11, 2017
updated 0.6-20 ← 0.6-00 diff Jul 27, 2017