I just released the latest version of phytools to my website, here. The new features and functions of this version include:
1) A new function, make.era.map(), which allows the user to map temporal eras on the tree. More details in a prior post.
2) A user requested update to phyl.RMA() allowing for a fixed value of the λ parameter. More on this here.
3) A new function, brownieREML, which does much faster REML model fitting of the multiple rate Brownian evolution model of O'Meara et al. (2006). More on this here.
4) A couple of updates to phylosig() that allow the incorporation of sampling error into estimates of phylogenetic signal using K & λ. The method for including sampling error is based on Ives et al. (2007).
I also added a CITATION file. The CITATION file tells R how to respond to the function call:
> citation("phytools").
My CITATION file looks something like the following:
citHeader("To cite phytools in publication use:")
citEntry(
entry="Manual",
title="phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative
biology (and other things).",
author="Liam J. Revell",
year=2012,
url="http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/phytools/",
textVersion=paste("Revell, L. J. (In press)","phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)","Methods Ecol. Evol.")
)
citFooter("As phytools is continually evolving, you may want to cite its version number. Find it with 'help(package=phytools)'.")
and calls to citation("phytools") will now return the following:
> citation("phytools")
To cite phytools in publication use:
Revell, L. J. (In press) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic
comparative biology (and other things) Methods Ecol. Evol.
A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
@Manual{,
title = {phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative
biology (and other things).},
author = {Liam J. Revell},
year = {2012},
url = {http://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/phytools/},
}
As phytools is continually evolving, you may want to cite its version number. Find it with 'help(package=phytools)'.
Cool.
The functionality added at each new version is so cool. Thanks for putting this together!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the comment!
ReplyDeleteBTW, I meant to mention that I had to set citEntry(entry="Manual",...) in the CITATION file because if I set citEntry(entry="Article",...) it would not accept empty fields for publication volume & pages (information that is not yet available as the article is in press). I don't know of any way around this, but feedback is welcome.