final fixes for ape 2.7-3

[ape.git] / NEWS

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 NEW FEATURES
 
+    o The new function compute.brtime computes and sets branching times.
+
     o mantel.test() has a new argument 'alternative' which is
       "two-sided" by default. Previously, this test was one-tailed
       with no possibility to change.
 
+    o ace() can now do REML estimation with continuous characters,
+      giving better estimates of the variance of the Brownian motion
+      process.
+
 
 BUG FIXES
 
@@ -18,6 +24,19 @@ BUG FIXES
       process when alpha = 0 to avoid division by zero. The option
       'linear' has been removed.
 
+    o Cross-validation in chronopl() did not work when 'age.max' was
+      used.
+
+    o consensus(, p = 0.5) could return an incorrect tree if some
+      incompatible splits occur in 50% of the trees (especially with
+      small number of trees).
+
+    o c() with "multiPhylo" did not work correctly (thanks to Klaus
+      Schliep for the fix).
+
+    o root() failed in some cases with an outgroup made of several tips.
+      The help page has been clarified a bit.
+
 
 
                CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.7-2