multianc {convevol}

Reconstructs ancestral states for multiple characters

Description

Uses fastAnc to reconstruct ancestral states for multiple phenotypic characters

Usage

multianc(phy, phendata)

Arguments

phy

The phylogeny of interest in phylo format

phendata

Phenotypic data for all tips

Details

None

Value

A matrix with the tips data in the first n rows and the ancestral data in the remaining n-1 rows.

References

Paradis, E., J. Claude, and K. Strimmer (2004) APE: Analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R langauge. Bioinformatics, 20, 289-290.

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol. 3 217-223.

Examples

phy<-rtree(10)

phendata<-fastBM(phy,nsim=2)

ancs<-multianc(phy,phendata)