An R package for manipulating phylogentic trees using an intuitive S4 class structure.
The treeman
R package provides a list
based class for encoding phylogenetic trees in R, making manipulating phylogenetic trees easier to code and more efficient to run. treeman
is aimed to be fast, simple and intuitive.
Installation
With CRAN:
install.packages('treeman')
Installing the development copy via GitHub
library(devtools)
install_github('dombennett/treeman')
Quick guide
# working with the TreeMan class
library(treeman)
?TreeMan # check the documentation
tree <- randTree(10) # generate a random tree of 10 tips
summary(tree) # check key stats
tree["tips"] # extract key stats
For more details check out the wiki.
Licence
GPL-2
Status
Version 1.1 released.
Reference
Bennett, D.J., Sutton, M.D. & Turvey, S.T., 2017. treeman: an R package for efficient and intuitive manipulation of phylogenetic trees. BMC Research Notes, 10(1), p.30. Available online
Author
D.J. Bennett (but I welcome pull requests!)