treedater

2.0.0

Fast Molecular Clock Dating of Phylogenetic Trees with Rate Variation

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8.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Erik VolzFirst published 2018-05-045 releasesCRAN page ↗

Functions for estimating times of common ancestry and molecular clock rates of evolution using a variety of evolutionary models, parametric and nonparametric bootstrap confidence intervals, methods for detecting outlier lineages, root-to-tip regression, and a statistical test for selecting molecular clock models. For more details see Volz and Frost (2017) <doi:10.1093/ve/vex025>.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("treedater")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# one-time r2u setup for Ubuntu (noble)

curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash

# then install

sudo apt install r-cran-treedater

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). Run the setup once per machine.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

sudo dnf copr enable iucar/cran

sudo dnf install R-CRAN-treedater

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

sudo zypper install R-treedater

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.16

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Yes

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

8.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,182 · ~23/day · ~688/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

ape

Imports (2)

Matrix basequadprog

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

lubridate ggplot2 foreach iterators mgcv baseknitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Code

3,192Lines of code

10Exported functions

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Tests / Examples

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Functions

33 10 exported

Complexity

6.5 avg / 33 max

Call network

33 nodes / 34 edges

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People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Erik Volz

Author, Maintainer

Release timeline

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2.0.0Latest
2026-07-05 · current release
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.2
2025-09-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.5.0
2020-01-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.3.0
2019-01-16 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2018-05-04

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-04
Total releases: 5 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet