New Rphylip function: Rdollop

After a hiatus to work on other stuff (including my winter-term tropical ecology course and various updates to phytools), I have finally returned to working on my R interface for Felsenstein's PHYLIP software package, Rphylip. The latest update is a new function, Rdollop which wraps around PHYLIP program DOLLOP, a program for Dollo & polymorphism parsimony tree inference. For more information about DOLLOP, refer to its documentation page.

Here's a quick demo using a binary primate dataset packaged with Rphylip. Note that this is not a dataset that I suspect evolved under Dollo's law, thus the example is simply demonstrative in nature:

> require(Rphylip)
Loading required package: Rphylip
Loading required package: ape
> data(primates.bin)
> tree<-Rdollop(primates.bin)

Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm, version 3.695

...

Adding species:
   1. 7        
   2. 12       
   3. 6        
   4. 1        
   5. 3        
   6. 4        
   7. 10       
   8. 5        
   9. 2        
  10. 8        
  11. 11       
  12. 9        

Doing global rearrangements
  !-----------------------!
   .......................
   .......................

...

Dollo and polymorphism parsimony algorithm, version 3.695

Dollo parsimony method

     7 trees in all found


  +--------------------------------2  
  ! 
  !                    +-----------9        
  !                    ! 
  !        +-----------8     +-----12       
  !        !           !  +-11 
  !        !           !  !  !  +--11       
  !        !           +--9  +-10 
  !        !              !     +--10       
--1        !              ! 
  !     +--7              +--------8        
  !     !  ! 
  !     !  !                 +-----6        
  !     !  !              +--5 
  !     !  !              !  !  +--7        
  !  +--3  +--------------4  +--6 
  !  !  !                 !     +--5        
  !  !  !                 ! 
  +--2  !                 +--------4        
     !  ! 
     !  +--------------------------3        
     ! 
     +-----------------------------1        


requires a total of    154.000

...     

Translation table
-----------------
        1       Lemur
        2       Tarsier
        3       Sq.Monkey
        4       J.Macaque
        5       R.Macaque
        6       E.Macaque
        7       B.Macaque
        8       Gibbon
        9       Orangutan
        10      Gorilla
        11      Chimp
        12      Human

> tree
7 phylogenetic trees
> plot(tree,no.margin=TRUE)
Waiting to confirm page change...
...

... and obviously 6 more trees as well, in this case.

That's it. A Rphylip build containing this function can be downloaded from GitHub.