Thursday, June 13, 2013

Common error in contMap

This is a commonly reported error from the function contMap:

contMap : Error in while (x > trans[i]) { : missed value TRUE / FALSE is required

I believe this is usually due to branches of zero length in the tree. For internal branches of zero length, this can be resolved using:

tree<-di2multi(tree)

7 comments:

  1. Hi Liam,
    I've been getting this error even after using your suggestion, within the code you posted for multi-plot phylomorphospaces with contMap. Is there anything else that might give me this warning? Admittedly, the tree I'm using has a lot of polytomies, but I don't know if that's an issue.
    Thanks,
    Kara

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    1. Hi Kara. The problem can also be very short edges. You can try collapsing those into polytomies by increasing the value of tol in di2multi. You can also increase res in contMap & this may also address your issue. Feel free to send me your data & code to troubleshoot. All the best, Liam

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    2. Thanks, Liam! I'll have a go at it, and let you know if this works.

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  2. That worked perfectly--I had to change both parameters.

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  3. Just a note that I got this error for a tree with no ~0 branch lengths, but with data stored as a frame rather than a vector (i.e. as the output from geiger::treedata). I know that's user error, but just figured I'd put it somewhere on the web in case anyone else was getting buggered by this! Also, a big thank you Liam, phytools is making my life much easier right now.

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  5. Hi Liam, I did just that, but I was unsuccessful. What do you think about this error? Can you help me, please?A big thank you!

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