Author: Shaun Wilkinson
Evolutionary biologists are increasingly using R for building, editing and visualizing phylogenetic trees. The reproducible code-based workflow and comprehensive array of tools available in packages such as ape, phangorn and phytools make R an ideal platform for phylogenetic analysis. Yet the many different tree formats are not well integrated, as pointed out in a recent post…
To better integrate the phylo and dendrogram object types, and hence increase the options available for both camps, we developed the phylogram package, which is now a part of the rOpenSci project. This small package features a handful of functions for tree conversion, importing and exporting trees as parenthetic text, and manipulating dendrograms for phylogenetic applications.
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Read the full post here: https://ropensci.org/technotes/2018/07/12/phylogram/