Description

phytools provides functions for phylogenetic comparative biology; as well as several other functions for tree inference, manipulation, and analysis that are not implemented in other R packages.

The complete list of functions can be displayed with library(help=phytools).

The phytools development page is https://github.com/liamrevell/phytools/. More information on phytools can also be found at http://blog.phytools.org or http://www.phytools.org.

If you use phytools (or other packages that depend on phytools) in a publication, please cite it. The appropriate citation for phytools is listed below or can be obtained using citation("phytools") with the package installed.

Author(s)

Liam J. Revell

Maintainer: Liam J. Revell <liam.revell@umb.edu>

References

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