1 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.6-2
6 o Two new functions, pic.ortho and varCompPhylip, implements the
7 orthonormal contrasts of Felsenstein (2008, Am Nat, 171:713). The
8 second function requires Phylip to be installed on the computer.
10 o bd.ext() has a new option conditional = TRUE to use probabilities
11 conditioned on no extinction for the taxonomic data.
16 o write.tree() failed to output correctly tree names.
18 o dist.nodes() returned duplicated column(s) with unrooted and/or
21 o mcmc.popsize() terminated unexpectedly if the progress bar was
24 o prop.part(x) made R frozen if 'x' is of class "multiPhylo".
26 o Compilation under Mandriva failed (thanks to Jos Käfer for the fix).
28 o drop.tip() shuffled tip labels with subtree = TRUE or trim.internal
33 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.6-1
38 o The new function speciesTree calculates the species tree from a set
39 of gene trees. Several methods are available including maximum tree
40 and shallowest divergence tree.
45 o A bug introduced in write.tree() with ape 2.6 has been fixed.
47 o as.list.DNAbin() did not work correctly with vectors.
49 o as.hclust.phylo() failed with trees with node labels (thanks to
50 Filipe Vieira for the fix).
54 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.6
59 o The new functions rlineage and rbdtree simulate phylogenies under
60 any user-defined time-dependent speciation-extinction model. They
61 use continuous time algorithms.
63 o The new function drop.fossil removes the extinct species from a
66 o The new function bd.time fits a user-defined time-dependent
67 birth-death model. It is a generalization of yule.time() taking
68 extinction into account.
70 o The new function MPR does most parsimonious reconstruction of
73 o The new function Ftab computes the contingency table of base
74 frequencies from a pair of sequences.
76 o There is now an 'as.list' method for the class "DNAbin".
78 o dist.dna() can compute the number of transitions or transversions
79 with the option model = "Ts" or model = "Tv", respectively.
81 o [node|tip|edge]labels() gain three options with default values to
82 control the aspect of thermometers: horiz = TRUE, width = NULL,
85 o compar.gee() has been improved with the new option 'corStruct' as an
86 alternative to 'phy' to specify the correlation structure, and
87 calculation of the QIC (Pan 2001, Biometrics). The display of the
88 results has also been improved.
90 o read.GenBank() has a new option 'gene.names' to return the name of
91 the gene (FALSE by default).
96 o extract.clade() sometimes shuffled the tip labels.
98 o plot.phylo(type = "unrooted") did not force asp = 1 (thanks to Klaus
101 o dist.dna(model = "logdet") used to divide distances by 4. The
102 documentation has been clarified on the formulae used.
107 o rTraitCont(model = "OU") has an option 'linear = TRUE' to possibly
108 change the parameterisation (see ?rTraitCont for details).
110 o pic() now returns a vector with the node labels of the tree (if
113 o write.tree() and read.tree() have been substantially improved thanks
114 to contributions by Klaus Schliep.
118 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.5-3
123 o The new function mixedFontLabel helps to make labels with bits of
124 text to be plotted in different fonts.
126 o There are now replacement operators for [, [[, and $ for the class
127 "multiPhylo" (i.e., TREES[11:20] <- rmtree(10, 100)). They possibly
128 check that the tip labels are the same in all trees.
130 o Objects of class "multiPhylo" can be built with c(): there are
131 methods for the classes "phylo" and "multiPhylo".
133 o The internal functions .compressTipLabel and .uncompressTipLabel are
139 o bind.tree(x, y, where, position = 0) did not work correctly if 'y'
140 was a single-edge tree and 'where' was a tip.
142 o rTraitCont() did not use the square-root of branch lengths when
143 simulating a Brownian motion model.
147 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.5-2
152 o There is now a print method for results from ace().
154 o There is a labels() method for objects of class "DNAbin".
156 o read.dna() has a new option 'as.matrix' to possibly force sequences
157 in a FASTA file to be stored in a matrix (see ?read.dna for details).
162 o as.phylo.hclust() used to multiply edge lengths by 2.
164 o A minor bug was fixed in rTraitDisc().
166 o ace() sometimes failed (parameter value was NaN and the optimisation
172 o evolve.phylo() and plot.ancestral() have been removed.
174 o chronogram(), ratogram(), and NPRS.criterion() have been removed.
179 o nj() has been improved and is now about 30% faster.
181 o The default option 'drop' of [.DNAbin has been changed to FALSE to
182 avoid dropping rownames when selecting a single sequence.
184 o print.DNAbin() has been changed to summary.DNAbin() which has been
189 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.5-1
194 o The new function stree generates trees with regular shapes.
196 o It is now possible to bind two trees with x + y (see ?bind.tree for
199 o drop.tip(), extract.clade(), root(), and bind.tree() now have an
200 'interactive' option to make the operation on a plotted tree.
202 o cophyloplot() gains two new arguments 'lwd' and 'lty' for the
203 association links; they are recycled like 'col' (which wasn't before).
208 o rTraitDisc() did not use its 'freq' argument correctly (it was
209 multiplied with the rate matrix column-wise instead of row-wise).
211 o [node|tip|edge]labels(thermo = ) used to draw empty thermometers
212 with NA values. Nothing is drawn now like with 'text' or 'pch'.
213 The same bug occurred with the 'pie' option.
215 o A bug was fixed in compar.ou() and the help page was clarified.
217 o bind.tree() has been rewritten fixing several bugs and making it
220 o plot.phylo(type = "p") sometimes failed to colour correctly the
221 vertical lines representing the nodes.
223 o plot.phylo(direction = "l", x.lim = 30) failed to plot the branches
224 in the correct direction though the tip labels were displayed
230 o The c, cbind, and rbind methods for "DNAbin" objetcs now check that
231 the sequences are correctly stored (in a list for c, in a matrix
232 for the two other functions).
236 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.5
241 o The new function parafit by Pierre Legendre tests for the
242 coevolution between hosts and parasites. It has a companion
243 function, pcoa, that does principal coordinate decomposition.
244 The latter has a biplot method.
246 o The new function lmorigin by Pierre Legendre performs multiple
247 regression through the origin with testing by permutation.
249 o The new functions rTraitCont and rTraitDisc simulate continuous and
250 discrete traits under a wide range of evolutionary models.
252 o The new function delta.plot does a delta plot following Holland et
253 al. (2002, Mol. Biol. Evol. 12:2051).
255 o The new function edges draws additional branches between any nodes
256 and/or tips on a plotted tree.
258 o The new function fancyarrows enhances arrows from graphics with
259 triangle and harpoon heads; it can be called from edges().
261 o add.scale.bar() has a new option 'ask' to draw interactively.
263 o The branch length score replaces the geodesic distance in dist.topo.
265 o Three new data sets are included: the gopher-lice data (gopher.D),
266 SO2 air pollution in 41 US cities (lmorigin.ex1, from Sokal &
267 Rohlf 1995), and some host-parasite specificity data
268 (lmorigin.ex2, from Legendre & Desdevises 2009).
273 o add.scale.bar() drew the bar outside the plotting region with the
274 default options with unrooted or radial trees.
276 o dist.topo() made R stuck when the trees had different sizes (thanks
277 to Otto Cordero for the fix).
282 o The geodesic distance has been replaced by the branch length score
287 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.4-1
292 o rtree() and rcoal() now accept a numeric vector for the 'br'
295 o vcv() is a new generic function with methods for the classes "phylo"
296 and "corPhyl" so that it is possible to calculate the var-cov matrix
297 for "transformation models". vcv.phylo() can still be used for trees
298 of class "phylo"; its argument 'cor' has been renamed 'corr'.
303 o bind.tree() failed when 'y' had no root edge.
305 o read.nexus() shuffled tip labels when the trees have no branch
306 lengths and there is a TRANSLATE block.
308 o read.nexus() does not try to translate node labels if there is a
309 translation table in the NEXUS file. See ?read.nexus for a
310 clarification on this behaviour.
312 o plot.multiPhylo() crashed R when plotting a list of trees with
313 compressed tip labels.
315 o write.nexus() did not translate the taxa names when asked for.
317 o plot.phylo(type = "fan") did not rotate the tip labels correctly
318 when the tree has branch lengths.
320 o ace(type = "continuous", method = "ML") now avoids sigma² being
321 negative (which resulted in an error).
323 o nj() crashed with NA/NaN in the distance matrix: an error in now
328 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.4
333 o base.freq() has a new option 'freq' to return the counts; the
334 default is still to return the proportions.
339 o seg.sites() did not handle ambiguous nucleotides correctly: they
342 o plot(phy, root.edge = TRUE) failed if there was no $root.edge in
343 the tree: the argument is now ignored.
345 o add.scale.bar() failed when 'x' and 'y' were given (thanks to Janet
351 o Trying to plot a tree with a single tip now returns NULL with a
352 warning (it returned an error previously).
354 o The way lines representing nodes are coloured in phylograms has
355 been modified (as well as their widths and types) following some
356 users' request; this is only for dichotomous nodes.
358 o The argument 'adj' in [node][tip][edge]labels() now works when
359 using 'pie' or 'thermo'.
361 o A more informative message error is now returned by dist.dna() when
362 'model' is badly specified (partial matching of this argument is
365 o Deprecated functions are now listed in a help page: see
366 help("ape-defunct") with the quotes.
371 o The functions heterozygosity, nuc.div, theta.h, theta.k and
372 theta.s have been moved from ape to pegas.
374 o The functions mlphylo, DNAmodel and sh.test have been removed.
378 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3-3
383 o add.scale.bar() always drew a horizontal bar.
385 o zoom() shuffled tips with unrooted trees.
387 o write.nexus() failed to write correctly trees with a "TipLabel"
390 o rcoal() failed to compute branch lengths with very large n.
392 o A small bug was fixed in compar.cheverud() (thanks to Michael
395 o seg.sites() failed when passing a vector.
397 o drop.tip() sometimes shuffled tip labels.
399 o root() shuffled node labels with 'resolve.root = TRUE'.
403 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3-2
408 o all.equal.phylo() did not compare unrooted trees correctly.
410 o dist.topo(... method = "PH85") did not treat unrooted trees
411 correctly (thanks to Tim Wallstrom for the fix).
413 o root() sometimes failed to test for the monophyly of the
416 o extract.clade() sometimes included too many edges.
418 o vcv.phylo() did not work correctly when the tree is in
421 o nj() did not handle correctly distance matrices with many 0's.
422 The code has also been significantly improved: 7, 70, 160 times
423 faster with n = 100, 500, 1000, respectively.
427 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3-1
432 o The new function is.monophyletic tests the monophyly of a group.
434 o There is now a c() method for lists of class "DNAbin".
436 o yule.cov() now fits the null model, and its help page has been
437 corrected with respect to this change.
439 o drop.tip() has a new option 'rooted' to force (or not) a tree
440 to be treated as (un)rooted.
445 o dist.gene() failed on most occasions with the default
446 pairwise.deletion = FALSE.
448 o read.tree() failed to read correctly the tree name(s).
450 o boot.phylo() now treats correctly data frames.
452 o del.gaps() did not copy the rownames of a matrix.
454 o A small bug was fixed in CDAM.global().
456 o ace() failed with large data sets. Thanks to Rich FitzJohn for
457 the fix. With other improvements, this function is now about 6
460 o write.tree() failed with objects of class "multiPhylo".
462 o drop.tip(, subtree = TRUE) sometimes shuffled tip labels.
467 o [.multiPhylo and [.DNAbin now respect the original class.
469 o Instances of the form class(phy) == "phylo" have been replaced
470 by inherits(phy, "phylo").
472 o rcoal() is now faster.
477 o klastorin() has been removed.
481 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3
486 o The new functions CADM.global and CADM.post, contributed by
487 Pierre Legendre, test the congruence among several distance
490 o The new function yule.time fits a user-defined time-dependent
491 Yule model by maximum likelihood.
493 o The new function makeNodeLabel creates and/or modifies node
494 labels in a flexible way.
496 o read.tree() and write.tree() have been modified so that they can
497 handle individual tree names.
499 o plot.phylo() has a new argument 'edge.lty' that specifies the
500 types of lines used for the edges (plain, dotted, dashed, ...)
502 o phymltest() has been updated to work with PhyML 3.0.1.
507 o drop.tip() shuffled tip labels in some cases.
509 o drop.tip() did not handle node.label correctly.
511 o is.ultrametric() now checks the ordering of the edge matrix.
513 o ace() sometimes returned negative values of likelihoods of
514 ancestral states (thanks to Dan Rabosky for solving this long
520 o The data set xenarthra has been removed.
524 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-4
528 o The bug fix in read.nexus() in version 2.2-3 was wrong: this is
529 now fixed. (Thanks to Peter Wragg for the fix!)
531 o A warning message occurred for no reason with ace(method="GLS").
536 o There is now a general help page displayed with '?ape'.
540 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-3
545 o The new function extract.clade extracts a clade from a tree by
546 specifying a node number or label.
548 o fastme.bal() has two new options 'spr' and 'tbr' to perform tree
549 operations of the same names.
551 o dist.dna() can now return the number of site differences by
552 specifying model="N".
557 o chronopl() did not work with CV = TRUE.
559 o read.nexus() did not work correctly in some situations (trees on
560 multiple lines with different numbers of lines and/or with
561 comments inserted within the trees).
563 o ltt.plot(), ltt.lines(), and mltt.plot() did not count correctly
564 the number of lineages with non-binary trees.
569 o ape has now a namespace.
571 o drop.tip() has been improved: it should be much faster and work
572 better in some cases (e.g., see the example in ?zoom).
576 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-2
581 o dist.gene() has been substantially improved and gains an option
584 o cbind.DNAbin() has a new option 'fill.with.gaps' and is now
590 o prop.part() failed with a single tree with the default option
591 'check.labels = TRUE'.
593 o summary.DNAbin() failed to display correctly the summary of
594 sequence lengths with lists of sequences of 10,000 bases or more
595 (because summary.default uses 4 significant digits by default).
597 o read.nexus() failed to read a file with a single tree with line
598 breaks in the Newick string.
600 o del.gaps() returned a list of empty sequences when there were no
606 o phymltest() has been updated for PhyML 3.0 and gains an option
607 'append', whereas the option 'path2exec' has been removed.
609 o rbind.DNAbin() and cbind.DNAbin() now accept a single matrix
610 which is returned unchanged (instead of an error).
612 o The data sets bird.orders and bird.families are now stored as
613 Newick strings; i.e., the command data(bird.orders) calls
618 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-1
623 o The new function makeLabel() helps to modify labels of trees,
624 lists of trees, or DNA sequences, with several utilities to
625 truncate and/or make them unique, substituting some
626 characters, and so on.
628 o The new function del.gaps() removes insertion gaps ("-") in a
629 set of DNA sequences.
631 o read.dna() can now read Clustal files (*.aln).
636 o root() failed with 'resolve.root = TRUE' when the root was
637 already the specified root.
639 o Several bugs were fixed in mlphylo().
641 o collapsed.singles() did not propagate the 'Nnode' and
642 'node.labels' elements (thanks to Elizabeth Purdom for the fix).
644 o read.nexus() failed to remove correctly the comments within
647 o read.nexus() failed to read a file with a single tree and no
648 translation of tip labels.
650 o read.nexus() failed to place correctly tip labels when reading
651 a single tree with no edge lengths.
653 o A bug was fixed in sh.test().
658 o unique.multiPhylo() is faster thanks to a suggestion by Vladimir
661 o The option 'check.labels' of consensus() and prop.part() is now
664 o write.dna() now does not truncate names to 10 characters with
669 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2
674 o Four new functions have been written by Damien de Vienne for the
675 graphical exploration of large trees (cophyloplot, subtrees,
676 subtreeplot), and to return the graphical coordinates of tree
679 o The new functions corPagel and corBlomberg implement the Pagel's
680 "lambda" and Blomberg et al.'s "ACDC" correlation structures.
682 o chronopl() has been improved and gains several options: see its
683 help page for details.
685 o boot.phylo() has now an option 'trees' to possibly return the
686 bootstraped trees (the default is FALSE).
688 o prop.part() has been improved and should now be faster in all
694 o read.dna() failed if "?" occurred in the first 10 sites of the
697 o The x/y aspect of the plot is now respected when plotting a
698 circular tree (type = "r" or "f").
700 o Drawing the tip labels sometimes failed when plotting circular
703 o zoom() failed when tip labels were used instead of their numbers
704 (thanks to Yan Wong for the fix).
706 o drop.tip() failed with some trees (fixed by Yan Wong).
708 o seg.sites() failed with a list.
710 o consensus() failed in some cases. The function has been improved
711 as well and is faster.
715 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1-3
720 o A bug in read.nexus() made the Windows R-GUI crash.
722 o An error was fixed in the computation of ancestral character
723 states by generalized least squares in ace().
725 o di2multi() did not modify node labels correctly.
727 o multi2di() failed if the tree had its attribute "order" set to
732 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1-2
737 o There three new methods for the "multiPhylo" class: str, $,
740 o root() gains the options 'node' and 'resolve.root'
741 (FALSE by default) as well as its code being improved.
743 o mltt.plot() has now an option 'log' used in the same way
744 than in plot.default().
749 o mltt.plot() failed to display the legend with an unnamed
752 o nodelabels() with pies now correcly uses the argument
753 'cex' to draw symbols of different sizes (which has
754 worked already for thermometers).
756 o read.nexus() generally failed to read very big files.
761 o The argument 'family' of compar.gee() can now be a function
762 as well as a character string.
764 o read.tree() and read.nexus() now return an unnamed list if
767 o read.nexus() now returns a modified object of class "multiPhylo"
768 when there is a TRANSLATE block in the NEXUS file: the individual
769 trees have no 'tip.label' vector, but the list has a 'TipLabel'
770 attribute. The new methods '$' and '[[' set these elements
771 correctly when extracting trees.
775 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1-1
780 o The new function rmtree generates lists of random trees.
782 o rcoal() now generates a genuine coalescent tree by default
783 (thanks to Vladimir Minin for the code).
788 o nuc.div() returned an incorrect value with the default
789 pairwise.deletion = FALSE.
794 o The internal codes of bionj(), fastme.bal(), and fastme.ols()
795 have been improved so that they are stabler and faster.
797 o R packages used by ape are now loaded silently; lattice and gee
798 are loaded only when needed.
802 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1
807 o The new function identify.phylo identifies clades on a plotted
808 tree using the mouse.
810 o It is now possible to subset a list of trees (object of class
811 "multiPhylo") with "[" while keeping its class correct.
813 o The new function as.DNAbin.alignment converts DNA sequences
814 stored in the "alignment" format of the package seqinr into
815 an object of class "DNAbin".
817 o The new function weight.taxo2 helps to build similarity matrices
818 given two taxonomic levels (usually called by other functions).
820 o write.tree() can now take a list of trees (class "multiPhylo")
821 as its main argument.
823 o plot.correlogram() and plot.correlogramList() have been
824 improved, and gain several options (see the help page for
825 details). A legend is now plotted by default.
830 o dist.dna() returned some incorrect values with `model = "JC69"'
831 and `pairwise.deletion = TRUE'. This affected only the
832 distances involving sequences with missing values. (Thanks
833 to Bruno Toupance for digging this bug out.)
835 o write.tree() failed with some trees: this is fixed by removing
836 the `multi.line' option (trees are now always printed on a
839 o read.nexus() did not correctly detect trees with multiple root
840 edges (see OTHER CHANGES).
845 o The code of mlphylo() has been almost entirely rewritten, and
846 should be much stabler. The options have been also greatly
847 simplified (see ?mlphylo and ?DNAmodel for details).
849 o The internal function nTips has been renamed klastorin_nTips.
851 o The code of is.ultrametric() contained redundancies and has
854 o The code of Moran.I() and of correlogram.formula() have been
857 o read.tree() and read.nexus() now return an error when trying to
858 read a tree with multiple root edges (see BUG FIXES). The
859 correction applied in previous version did not work in all
862 o The class c("multi.tree", "phylo") has been renamed
868 o There is now a vignette in ape: see vignette("MoranI", "ape").
873 o as.matching() and as.phylo.matching() do not support branch
876 o correlogram.phylo() and discrete.dist() have been removed.
880 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.0-2
885 o The new function matexpo computes the exponential of a square
888 o The new function unique.multi.tree removes duplicate trees from
891 o yule() has a new option `use.root.edge = FALSE' that specifies
892 to ignore, by default, the root edge of the tree if it exists.
897 o which.edge() failed when the index of a single terminal edge was
900 o In diversi.time(), the values returned for model C were
903 o A bug was fixed in yule() that affected the calculation of the
904 likelihood in the presence of ties in the branching times.
906 o There was a bug in the C function mat_expo4x4 affecting the
907 calculations of the transition probabilities for models HKY and
910 o A small bug was fixed in as.matrix.DNAbin (thanks to James
913 o rtree() did not `shuffle' the tip labels by default, so only a
914 limited number of labelled topologies could be generated.
918 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.0-1
923 o The three new functions bionj, fastme.ols, and fastme.bal
924 perform phylogeny estimation by the BIONJ and fastME methods in
925 OLS and balanced versions. This is a port to R of previous
926 previous programs done by Vincent Lefort.
928 o The new function chronoMPL performs molecular dating with the
929 mean path lengths method of Britton et al. (2002, Mol. Phyl.
932 o The new function rotate, contributed by Christoph Heibl, swaps
933 two clades connected to the same node. It works also with
934 multichotomous nodes.
936 o The new `method' as.matrix.DNAbin() may be used to convert
937 easily DNA sequences stored in a list into a matrix while
938 keeping the names and the class.
943 o chronopl() failed when some branch lengths were equal to zero:
944 an error message is now returned.
946 o di2multi() failed when there was a series of consecutive edges
951 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.10-2
956 o plot.phylo() can now plot circular trees: the option is type =
957 "fan" or type = "f" (to avoid the ambiguity with type = "c").
959 o prop.part() has a new option `check.labels = FALSE' which allows
960 to considerably speed-up the calculations of bipartitions. As a
961 consequence, calculations of bootstrap values with boot.phylo()
962 should be much faster.
967 o read.GenBank() did not return correctly the list of species as
968 from ape 1.10: this is fixed in this version
970 o Applying as.phylo() on a tree of class "phylo" failed: the
971 object is now returned unchanged.
975 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.10-1
980 o The three new functions Ntip, Nnode, and Nedge return, for a
981 given tree, the number of tips, nodes, or edges, respectively.
986 o read.nexus() did not set correctly the class of the returned
987 object when reading multiple trees.
989 o mllt.plot() failed with objects of class c("multi.tree",
992 o unroot() did not work correctly in most cases.
994 o reorder.phylo() made R freeze in some occasions.
996 o Plotting a tree in pruningwise order failed.
998 o When plotting an unrooted tree, the tip labels where not all
999 correctly positioned if the option `cex' was used.
1003 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.10
1008 o Five new `method' functions have been introduced to manipulate
1009 DNA sequences in binary format (see below).
1011 o Three new functions have been introduced to convert between the
1012 new binary and the character formats.
1014 o The new function as.alignment converts DNA sequences stored as
1015 single characters into the class "alignment" used by the package
1018 o read.dna() and read.GenBank() have a new argument `as.character'
1019 controlling whether the sequences are returned in binary format
1025 o root() failed when the tree had node labels: this is fixed.
1027 o plot.phylo() did not correctly set the limits on the y-axis with
1028 the default setting: this is fixed.
1030 o dist.dna() returned a wrong result for the LogDet, paralinear,
1031 and BH87 models with `pairwise.deletion = TRUE'.
1036 o DNA sequences are now internally stored in a binary format. See
1037 the document "A Bit-Level Coding Scheme for Nucleotides" for the
1038 details. Most functions analyzing DNA functions have been
1039 modified accordingly and are now much faster (dist.dna is now
1040 ca. 60 times faster).
1044 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-4
1049 o A bug was fixed in edgelabels().
1051 o as.phylo.hclust() did not work correctly when the object of
1052 class "hclust" has its labels set to NULL: the returned tree has
1053 now its tip labels set to "1", "2", ...
1055 o consensus could fail if some tip labels are a subset of others
1056 (e.g., "a" and "a_1"): this is now fixed.
1058 o mlphylo() failed in most cases if some branch lengths of the
1059 initial tree were greater than one: an error message is now
1062 o mlphylo() failed in most cases when estimating the proportion of
1063 invariants: this is fixed.
1067 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-3
1072 o The new function edgelabels adds labels on the edge of the tree
1073 in the same way than nodelabels or tiplabels.
1078 o multi2di() did not handle correctly branch lengths with the
1079 default option `random = TRUE': this is now fixed.
1081 o A bug was fixed in nuc.div() when using pairwise deletions.
1083 o A bug occurred in the analysis of bipartitions with large
1084 numbers of large trees, with consequences on prop.part,
1085 prop.clades, and boot.phylo.
1087 o The calculation of the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann distance in
1088 dist.topo was wrong: this has been fixed.
1092 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-2
1097 o The new function ladderize reorganizes the internal structure of
1098 a tree to plot them left- or right-ladderized.
1100 o The new function dist.nodes computes the patristic distances
1101 between all nodes, internal and terminal, of a tree. It replaces
1102 the option `full = TRUE' of cophenetic.phylo (see below).
1107 o A bug was fixed in old2new.phylo().
1109 o Some bugs were fixed in chronopl().
1111 o The edge colours were not correctly displayed by plot.phylo
1112 (thank you to Li-San Wang for the fix).
1114 o cophenetic.phylo() failed with multichotomous trees: this is
1120 o read.dna() now returns the sequences in a matrix if they are
1121 aligned (interleaved or sequential format). Sequences in FASTA
1122 format are still returned in a list.
1124 o The option `full' of cophenetic.phylo() has been removed because
1125 it could not be used from the generic.
1128 DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
1130 o rotate() has been removed; this function did not work correctly
1135 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-1
1140 o Trees with a single tip were not read correctly in R as the
1141 element `Nnode' was not set: this is fixed.
1143 o unroot() did not set correctly the number of nodes of the
1144 unrooted tree in most cases.
1146 o read.GenBank() failed when fetching very long sequences,
1147 particularly of the BX-series.
1149 o A bug was introduced in read.tree() with ape 1.9: it has been
1154 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9
1159 o There are two new print `methods' for trees of class "phylo" and
1160 lists of trees of class "multi.tree", so that they are now
1161 displayed in a compact and informative way.
1163 o There are two new functions, old2new.phylo and new2old.phylo,
1164 for converting between the old and new coding of the class
1167 o dist.dna() has three new models: Barry and Hartigan ("BH87"),
1168 LogDet ("logdet"), and paralinear ("paralin").
1170 o compute.brlen() has been extended: several methods are now
1171 available to compute branch lengths.
1173 o write.dna() can now handle matrices as well as lists.
1178 o cophenetic.phylo() sometimes returned a wrong result with
1179 multichotomous trees: this is fixed.
1181 o rotate() failed when a single tip was specified: the tree is now
1184 o ace() did not return the correct index matrix with custom
1185 models: this is fixed.
1187 o multi2di() did not work correctly when resolving multichotomies
1188 randomly: the topology was always the same, only the arrangement
1189 of clades was randomized: this is fixed. This function now
1190 accepts trees with no branch lengths.
1192 o The output of diversi.gof() was blurred by useless prints when a
1193 user distribution was specified. This has been corrected, and
1194 the help page of this function has been expanded.
1199 o The internal structure of the class "phylo" has been changed:
1200 see the document "Definition of Formats for Coding Phylogenetic
1201 Trees in R" for the details. In addition, the code of most
1202 functions has been improved.
1204 o Several functions have been improved by replacing some R codes
1205 by C codes: pic, plot.phylo, and reorder.phylo.
1207 o There is now a citation information: see citation("ape") in R.
1209 o write.tree() now does not add extra 0's to branch lengths so
1210 that 1.23 is printed "1.23" by default, not "1.2300000000".
1212 o The syntax of bind.tree() has been simplified. This function now
1213 accepts trees with no branch lengths, and handles correctly node
1216 o The option `as.numeric' of mrca() has been removed.
1218 o The unused options `format' and `rooted' of read.tree() have
1221 o The unused option `format' of write.tree() has been removed.
1223 o The use of node.depth() has been simplified.
1227 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-5
1232 o Two new functions read.nexus.data() and write.nexus.data(),
1233 contributed by Johan Nylander, allow to read and write molecular
1234 sequences in NEXUS files.
1236 o The new function reorder.phylo() reorders the internal structure
1237 of a tree of class "phylo". It is used as the generic, e.g.,
1240 o read.tree() and read.nexus() can now read trees with a single
1243 o The new data set `cynipids' supplies a set of protein sequences
1249 o The code of all.equal.phylo() has been completely rewritten
1250 (thanks to Benoît Durand) which fixes several bugs.
1252 o read.tree() and read.nexus() now checks the labels of the tree
1253 to remove or substitute any characters that are illegal in the
1254 Newick format (parentheses, etc.)
1256 o A negative P-value could be returned by mantel.test(): this is
1261 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-4
1266 o The new function sh.test() computes the Shimodaira-
1269 o The new function collapse.singles() removes the nodes with a
1270 single descendant from a tree.
1272 o plot.phylo() has a new argument `tip.color' to specify the
1273 colours of the tips.
1275 o mlphylo() has now an option `quiet' to control the display of
1276 the progress of the analysis (the default is FALSE).
1281 o read.dna() did not read correctly sequences in sequential format
1282 with leading alignment gaps "-": this is fixed.
1284 o ace() returned a list with no class so that the generic
1285 functions (anova, logLik, ...) could not be used directly. This
1286 is fixed as ace() now returns an object of class "ace".
1288 o anova.ace() had a small bug when computing the number of degrees
1289 of freedom: this is fixed.
1291 o mlphylo() did not work when the sequences were in a matrix or
1292 a data frame: this is fixed.
1294 o rtree() did not work correctly when trying to simulate an
1295 unrooted tree with two tips: an error message is now issued.
1300 o The algorithm of rtree() has been changed: it is now about 40,
1301 100, and 130 times faster for 10, 100, and 1000 tips,
1306 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-3
1311 o There are four new `method' functions to be used with the
1312 results of ace(): logLik(), deviance(), AIC(), and anova().
1314 o The plot method of phymltest has two new arguments: `main' to
1315 change the title, and `col' to control the colour of the
1316 segments showing the AIC values.
1318 o ace() has a new argument `ip' that gives the initial values used
1319 in the ML estimation with discrete characters (see the examples
1320 in ?ace). This function now returns a matrix giving the indices
1321 of the estimated rates when analysing discrete characters.
1323 o nodelabels() and tiplabels() have a new argument `pie' to
1324 represent proportions, with any number of categories, as
1325 piecharts. The use of the option `thermo' has been improved:
1326 there is now no limitation on the number of categories.
1331 o mlphylo() did not work with more than two partitions: this is
1334 o root() failed if the proposed outgroup was already an outgroup
1335 in the tree: this is fixed.
1337 o The `col' argument in nodelabels() and tiplabels() was not
1338 correctly passed when `text' was used: this is fixed.
1340 o Two bugs were fixed in mlphylo(): parameters were not always
1341 correctly output, and the estimation failed in some cases.
1343 o plot.phylo() was stuck when given a tree with a single tip: this
1344 is fixed and a message error is now returned.
1346 o An error was corrected in the help page of gammaStat regarding
1347 the calculation of P-values.
1349 o Using gls() could crash R when the number of species in the tree
1350 and in the variables were different: this is fixed.
1354 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-2
1359 o The new function mlphylo() fits a phylogenetic tree by maximum
1360 likelihood from DNA sequences. Its companion function DNAmodel()
1361 is used to define the substitution model which may include
1362 partitioning. There are methods for logLik(), deviance(), and
1363 AIC(), and the summary() method has been extended to display in
1364 a friendly way the results of this model fitting. Currently, the
1365 functionality is limited to estimating the substitution and
1366 associated parameters and computing the likelihood.
1368 o The new function drop1.compar.gee (used as, e.g., drop1(m))
1369 tests for single effects in GEE-based comparative method. A
1370 warning message is printed if there is not enough degrees of
1376 o An error message was sometimes issued by plot.multi.tree(),
1377 though with no consequence.
1381 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-1
1386 o There is a new plot method for lists of trees (objects of class
1387 "multi.tree"): it calls plot.phylo() internally and is
1388 documented on the same help page.
1393 o A bug was fixed in the C code that analyzes bipartitions: this
1394 has impact on several functions like prop.part, prop.clades,
1395 boot.phylo, or consensus.
1397 o root() did not work correctly when the specified outgroup had
1398 more than one element: this is fixed.
1400 o dist.dna() sometimes returned a warning inappropriately: this
1403 o If the distance object given to nj() had no rownames, nj()
1404 returned a tree with no tip labels: it now returns tips labelled
1405 "1", "2", ..., corresponding to the row numbers.
1410 o nj() has been slightly changed so that tips with a zero distance
1411 are first aggregated with zero-lengthed branches; the usual NJ
1412 procedure is then performed on a distance matrix without 0's.
1416 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8
1421 o The new function chronopl() estimates dates using the penalized
1422 likelihood method by Sanderson (2002; Mol. Biol. Evol., 19:101).
1424 o The new function consensus() calculates the consensus tree of a
1427 o The new function evolve.phylo() simulates the evolution of
1428 continuous characters along a phylogeny under a Brownian model.
1430 o The new plot method for objects of class "ancestral" displays a
1431 tree together with ancestral values, as returned by the above
1434 o The new function as.phylo.formula() returns a phylogeny from a
1435 set of nested taxonomic variables given as a formula.
1437 o The new function read.caic() reads trees in CAIC format.
1439 o The new function tiplabels() allows to add labels to the tips
1440 of a tree using text or plotting symbols in a flexible way.
1442 o The new function unroot() unroots a phylogeny.
1444 o multi2di() has a new option, `random', which specifies whether
1445 to resolve the multichotomies randomly (the default) or not.
1447 o prop.part() now returns an object of class "prop.part" for which
1448 there are print (to display a partition in a more friendly way)
1449 and summary (to extract the numbers) methods.
1451 o plot.phylo() has a new option, `show.tip.label', specifying
1452 whether to print the labels of the tips. The default is TRUE.
1454 o The code of nj() has been replaced by a faster C code: it is now
1455 about 10, 25, and 40 times faster for 50, 100, and 200 taxa,
1458 o write.nexus() now writes whether a tree is rooted or not.
1463 o Two bugs have been fixed in root(): unrooted trees are now
1464 handled corretly, and node labels are now output normally.
1466 o A bug was fixed in phymltest(): the executable couldn't be found
1469 o Three bug have been fixed in ace(): computing the likelihood of
1470 ancestral states of discrete characters failed, custom models
1471 did not work, and the function failed with a null gradient (a
1472 warning message is now returned; this latter bug was also
1473 present in yule.cov() as well and is now fixed).
1475 o pic() hanged out when missing data were present: a message error
1478 o A small bug was fixed in dist.dna() where the gamma correction
1479 was not always correctly dispatched.
1481 o plot.phylo() plotted correctly the root edge only when the tree
1482 was plotted rightwards: this works now for all directions.
1487 o dist.taxo() has been renamed as weight.taxo().
1489 o dist.phylo() has been replaced by the method cophenetic.phylo().
1491 o Various error and warning messages have been improved.
1495 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.7
1498 o The new function ace() estimates ancestral character states for
1499 continuous characters (with ML, GLS, and contrasts methods), and
1500 discrete characters (with ML only) for any number of states.
1502 o The new function compar.ou() fits the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model
1503 of directional evolution for continuous characters. The user
1504 specifies the node(s) of the tree where the character optimum
1507 o The new function is.rooted() tests whether a tree (of class
1510 o The new function rcoal() generates random ultrametric trees with
1511 the possibility to specify the function that generates the
1512 inter-nodes distances.
1514 o The new function mrca() gives for all pairs of tips in a tree
1515 (and optionally nodes too) the most recent common ancestor.
1517 o nodelabels() has a new option `thermo' to plot proportions (up
1518 to three classes) on the nodes of a tree.
1520 o rtree() has been improved: it can now generate rooted or
1521 unrooted trees, and the mathematical function that generates the
1522 branch lengths may be specified by the user. The tip labels may
1523 be given directly in the call to rtree. The limit cases (n = 2,
1524 3) are now handled correctly.
1526 o dist.topo() has a new argument `method' with two choices: "PH85"
1527 for Penny and Henny's method (already available before and now
1528 the default), and "BHV01" for the geometric distance by Billera
1529 et al. (2001, Adv. Appl. Math. 27:733).
1531 o write.tree() has a new option, `digits', which specifies the
1532 number of digits to be printed in the Newick tree. By default
1533 digits = 10. The numbers are now always printed in decimal form
1534 (i.e., 1.0e-1 is now avoided).
1536 o dist.dna() can now compute the raw distances between pairs of
1537 DNA sequences by specifying model = "raw".
1539 o dist.phylo() has a new option `full' to possibly compute the
1540 distances among all tips and nodes of the tree. The default if
1546 o Several bugs were fixed in all.equal.phylo().
1548 o dist.dna() did not handle correctly gaps ("-") in alignments:
1549 they are now considered as missing data.
1551 o rotate() did not work if the tips were not ordered: this is
1554 o mantel.test() returned NA in some special cases: this is fixed
1555 and the function has been improved and is now faster.
1557 o A bug was fixed in diversi.gof() where the calculation of A² was
1560 o cherry() did not work correctly under some OSs (mainly Linux):
1563 o is.binary.tree() has been modified so that it works with both
1564 rooted and unrooted trees.
1566 o The documentation of theta.s() was not correct: this has been
1569 o plot.mst() did not work correctly: this is fixed.
1573 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.6
1578 o The new function dist.topo() computes the topological distances
1581 o The new function boot.phylo() performs a bootstrap analysis on
1582 phylogeny estimation.
1584 o The new functions prop.part() and prop.clades() analyse
1585 bipartitions from a series of trees.
1590 o read.GenBank() now uses the EFetch utility of NCBI instead of
1591 the usual Web interface: it is now much faster (e.g., 12 times
1592 faster to retrieve 8 sequences, 37 times for 60 sequences).
1597 o Several bugs were fixed in read.dna().
1599 o Several bugs were fixed in diversi.time().
1601 o is.binary.tree() did not work correctly if the tree has no edge
1602 lengths: this is fixed.
1604 o drop.tip() did not correctly propagated the `node.label' of a
1605 tree: this is fixed.
1609 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.5
1614 o Two new functions, as.matching.phylo() and as.phylo.matching(),
1615 convert objects between the classes "phylo" and "matching". The
1616 latter implements the representation of binary trees introduced by
1617 Diaconis and Holmes (1998; PNAS 95:14600). The generic function
1618 as.matching() has been introduced as well.
1620 o Two new functions, multi2di() and di2multi(), allow to resolve
1621 and collapse multichotomies with branches of length zero.
1623 o The new function nuc.div() computes the nucleotide diversity
1624 from a sample a DNA sequences.
1626 o dist.dna() has been completely rewritten with a much faster
1627 (particularly for large data sets) C code. Eight models are
1628 available: JC69, K80, F81, K81, F84, T92, TN93, and GG95 (the
1629 option `method' has been renamed `model'). Computation of variance
1630 is available for all models. A gamma-correction is possible for
1631 JC69, K80, F81, and TN93. There is a new option, pairwise.deletion,
1632 to remove sites with missing data on a pairwise basis. The option
1633 `GCcontent' has been removed.
1635 o read.GenBank() has a new option (species.names) which specifies
1636 whether to return the species names of the organisms in addition
1637 to the accession numbers of the sequences (this is the default
1640 o write.nexus() can now write several trees in the same NEXUS file.
1642 o drop.tip() has a new option `root.edge' that allows to specify the
1643 new root edge if internal branches are trimmed.
1648 o as.phylo.hclust() failed if some labels had parentheses: this
1651 o Several bugs were fixed in all.equal.phylo(). This function now
1652 returns the logical TRUE if the trees are identical but with
1653 different representations (a report was printed previously).
1655 o read.GenBank() did not correctly handle ambiguous base codes:
1661 o birthdeath() now returns an object of class "birthdeath" for
1662 which there is a print method.
1666 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.4
1671 o The new function nj() performs phylogeny estimation with the
1672 neighbor-joining method of Saitou and Nei (1987; Mol. Biol.
1675 o The new function which.edge() identifies the edges of a tree
1676 that belong to a group specified as a set of tips.
1678 o The new function as.phylo.phylog() converts an object of class
1679 "phylog" (from the package ade4) into an object of class
1682 o The new function axisPhylo() draws axes on the side of a
1685 o The new function howmanytrees() calculates the number of trees
1686 in different cases and giving a number of tips.
1688 o write.tree() has a new option `multi.line' (TRUE by default) to
1689 write a Newick tree on several lines rather than on a single
1692 o The functionalities of zoom() have been extended. Several
1693 subtrees can be visualized at the same time, and they are marked
1694 on the main tree with colors. The context of the subtrees can be
1695 marked with the option `subtree' (see below).
1697 o drop.tip() has a new option `subtree' (FALSE by default) which
1698 specifies whether to output in the tree how many tips have been
1701 o The arguments of add.scale.bar() have been redefined and have
1702 now default values (see ?add.scale.bar for details). This
1703 function now works even if the plotted tree has no edge length.
1705 o plot.phylo() can now plot radial trees, but this does not take
1706 edge lengths into account.
1708 o In plot.phylo() with `type = "phylogram"', if the values of
1709 `edge.color' and `edge.width' are identical for sister-branches,
1710 they are propagated to the vertical line that link them.
1715 o Repeated calls to as.phylo.hclust() or as.hclust.phylo() made R
1716 crashing. This is fixed.
1718 o In plot.phylo(), the options `edge.color' and `edge.width' are
1719 now properly recycled; their default values are now "black" and
1722 o A bug has been fixed in write.nexus().
1727 o The function node.depth.edgelength() has been removed and
1728 replaced by a C code.
1732 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.3-1
1737 o The new function nodelabels() allows to add labels to the nodes
1738 of a tree using text or plotting symbols in a flexible way.
1740 o In plot.phylo() the arguments `x.lim' and `y.lim' can now be two
1741 numeric values specifying the lower and upper limits on the x-
1742 and y-axes. This allows to leave some space on any side of the
1743 tree. If a single value is given, this is taken as the upper
1748 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.3
1753 o The new function phymltest() calls the software PHYML and fits
1754 28 models of DNA sequence evolution. There are a print method to
1755 display likelihood and AIC values, a summary method to compute
1756 the hierarchical likelihood ratio tests, and a plot method to
1757 display graphically the AIC values of each model.
1759 o The new function yule.cov() fits the Yule model with covariates,
1760 a model where the speciation rate is affected by several species
1761 traits through a generalized linear model. The parameters are
1762 estimated by maximum likelihood.
1764 o Three new functions, corBrownian(), corGrafen(), and
1765 corMartins(), compute the expected correlation structures among
1766 species given a phylogeny under different models of evolution.
1767 These can be used for GLS comparative phylogenetic methods (see
1768 the examples). There are coef() and corMatrix() methods and an
1769 Initialize.corPhyl() function associated.
1771 o The new function compar.cheverud() implements Cheverud et al.'s
1772 (1985; Evolution 39:1335) phylogenetic comparative method.
1774 o The new function varcomp() estimates variance components; it has
1777 o Two new functions, panel.superpose.correlogram() and
1778 plot.correlogramList(), allow to plot several phylogenetic
1781 o The new function node.leafnumber() computes the number of leaves
1782 of a subtree defined by a particular node.
1784 o The new function node.sons() gets all tags of son nodes from a
1787 o The new function compute.brlen() computes the branch lengths of
1788 a tree according to a specified method.
1790 o plot.phylo() has three new options: "cex" controls the size of
1791 the (tip and node) labels (thus it is no more needed to change
1792 the global graphical parameter), "direction" which allows to
1793 plot the tree rightwards, leftwards, upwards, or downwards, and
1794 "y.lim" which sets the upper limit on the y-axis.
1799 o Some functions which try to match tip labels and names of
1800 additional data (e.g. vector) are likely to fail if there are
1801 typing or syntax errors. If both series of names do not perfectly
1802 match, they are ignored and a warning message is now issued.
1803 These functions are bd.ext, compar.gee, pic. Their help pages
1804 have been clarified on this point.
1808 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-7
1813 o The new function root() reroots a phylogenetic tree with respect
1814 to a specified outgroup.
1816 o The new function rotate() rotates an internal branch of a tree.
1818 o In plot.phylo(), the new argument "lab4ut" (labels for unrooted
1819 trees) controls the display of the tip labels in unrooted trees.
1820 This display has been greatly improved: the tip labels are now not
1821 expected to overlap with the tree (particularly if lab4ut =
1822 "axial"). In all cases, combining appropriate values of "lab4ut"
1823 and the font size (via "par(cex = )") should result in readable
1824 unrooted trees. See ?plot.phylo for some examples.
1826 o In drop.tip(), the argument `tip' can now be numeric or character.
1831 o drop.tip() did not work correctly with trees with no branch
1832 lengths: this is fixed.
1834 o A bug in plot.phylo(..., type = "unrooted") made some trees being
1835 plotted with some line crossings: this is now fixed.
1839 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-6
1844 o Six new functions (Moran.I, correlogram.formula, discrete.dist,
1845 correlogram.phylo, dist.taxo, plot.correlogram) have been added
1846 to implement comparative methods with an autocorrelation approach.
1848 o A new data set describing some life history traits of Carnivores
1854 o A fix was made on mcmc.popsize() to conform to R 2.0.0.
1859 o When plotting a tree with plot.phylo(), the new default of the
1860 option `label.offset' is now 0, so the labels are always visible.
1864 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-5
1869 o The new function bd.ext() fits a birth-death model with combined
1870 phylogenetic and taxonomic data, and estimates the corresponding
1871 speciation and extinction rates.
1876 o The package gee is no more required by ape but only suggested
1877 since only the function compar.gee() calls gee.
1881 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-4
1886 o Four new functions (mcmc.popsize, extract.popsize, plot.popsize,
1887 and lines.popsize) implementing a new approach for inferring the
1888 demographic history from genealogies using a reversible jump
1889 MCMC have been introduced.
1891 o The unit of time in the skyline plot and in the new plots can
1892 now be chosen to be actual years, rather than substitutions.
1896 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-3
1901 o The new function rtree() generates a random binary tree with or
1902 without branch lengths.
1904 o Two new functions for drawing lineages-through-time (LTT) plots
1905 are provided: ltt.lines() adds a LTT curve to an existing plot,
1906 and mltt.plot() does a multiple LTT plot giving several trees as
1907 arguments (see `?ltt.plot' for details).
1912 o Some taxon names made R crashing when calling as.phylo.hclust():
1915 o dist.dna() returned an error with two identical DNA sequences
1916 (only using the Jukes-Cantor method returned 0): this is fixed.
1921 o The function dist.phylo() has been re-written using a different
1922 algorithm: it is now about four times faster.
1924 o The code of branching.times() has been improved: it is now about
1929 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-2
1934 o The new function seg.sites() finds the segregating sites in a
1935 sample of DNA sequences.
1940 o A bug introduced in read.tree() and in read.nexus() with version
1943 o A few errors were corrected and a few examples were added in the
1948 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-1
1953 o plot.phylo() can now draw the edge of the root of a tree if it
1954 has one (see the new option `root.edge', its default is FALSE).
1959 o A bug was fixed in read.nexus(): files with semicolons inside
1960 comment blocks were not read correctly.
1962 o The behaviour of read.tree() and read.nexus() was corrected so
1963 that tree files with badly represented root edges (e.g., with
1964 an extra pair of parentheses, see the help pages for details)
1965 are now correctly represented in the object of class "phylo";
1966 a warning message is now issued.
1970 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2
1975 o plot.phylo() has been completely re-written and offers several
1976 new functionalities. Three types of trees can now be drawn:
1977 phylogram (as previously), cladogram, and unrooted tree; in
1978 all three types the branch lengths can be drawn using the edge
1979 lengths of the phylogeny or not (e.g., if the latter is absent).
1980 The vertical position of the nodes can be adjusted with two
1981 choices (see option `node.pos'). The code has been re-structured,
1982 and two new functions (potentially useful for developpers) are
1983 documented separately: node.depth.edgelength() and node.depth();
1984 see the respective help pages for details.
1986 o The new function zoom() allows to explore very large trees by
1987 focusing on a small portion of it.
1989 o The new function yule() fits by maximum likelihood the Yule model
1990 (birth-only process) to a phylogenetic tree.
1992 o Support for writing DNA sequences in FASTA format has been
1993 introduced in write.dna() (support for reading sequences in
1994 this format was introduced in read.dna() in version 1.1-2).
1995 The function has been completely re-written, fixing some bugs
1996 (see below); the default behaviour is no more to display the
1997 sequences on the standard output. Several options have been
1998 introduced to control the sequence printing in a flexible
1999 way. The help page has been extended.
2001 o A new data set is included: a supertree of bats in NEXUS format.
2006 o In theta.s(), the default of the option `variance' has
2007 been changed to `FALSE' (as was indicated in the help page).
2009 o Several bugs were fixed in the code of all.equal.phylo().
2011 o Several bugs were fixed in write.dna(), particularly this
2012 function did not work with `format = "interleaved"'.
2014 o Various errors were corrected in the help pages.
2019 o The argument names of as.hclust.phylo() have been changed
2020 from "(phy)" to "(x, ...)" to conform to the definition of
2021 the corresponding generic function.
2023 o gamma.stat() has been renamed gammaStat() to avoid confusion
2024 since gamma() is a generic function.
2028 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1-3
2033 o base.freq() previously did not return a value of 0 for
2034 bases absent in the data (e.g., a vector of length 3 was
2035 returned if one base was absent). This is now fixed (a
2036 vector of length 4 is always returned).
2038 o Several bugs were fixed in read.nexus(), including that this
2039 function did not work in this absence of a "TRANSLATE"
2040 command in the NEXUS file, and that the commands were
2045 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1-2
2050 o The Tamura and Nei (1993) model of DNA distance is now implemented
2051 in dist.dna(): five models are now available in this function.
2053 o A new data set is included: a set of 15 sequences of the
2054 cytochrome b mitochondrial gene of the woodmouse (Apodemus
2060 o A bug in read.nexus() was fixed.
2062 o read.dna() previously did not work correctly in most cases.
2063 The function has been completely re-written and its help page
2064 has been considerably extended (see ?read.dna for details).
2065 Underscores (_) in taxon names are no more replaced with
2066 spaces (this behaviour was undocumented).
2068 o A bug was fixed in write.dna().
2072 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1-1
2077 o A bug in read.tree() introduced in APE 1.1 was fixed.
2079 o A bug in compar.gee() resulted in an error when trying to fit
2080 a model with `family = "binomial"'. This is now fixed.
2084 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1
2089 o The Klastorin (1982) method as suggested by Misawa and Tajima
2090 (2000, Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:1879-1884) for classifying genes
2091 on the basis of phylogenetic trees has been implemented (see
2092 the function klastorin()).
2094 o Functions have been added to convert APE's "phylo" objects in
2095 "hclust" cluster objects and vice versa (see the help page of
2096 as.phylo for details).
2098 o Three new functions, ratogram(), chronogram() and NPRS.criterion(),
2099 are introduced for the estimation of absolute evolutionary rates
2100 (ratogram) and dated clock-like trees (chronogram) from
2101 phylogenetic trees using the non-parametric rate smoothing approach
2102 by MJ Sanderson (1997, Mol. Biol. Evol. 14:1218-1231).
2104 o A summary method is now provided printing a summary information on a
2105 phylogenetic tree with, for instance, `summary(tree)'.
2107 o The behaviour of read.tree() was changed so that all spaces and
2108 tabulations in tree files are now ignored. Consequently, spaces in tip
2109 labels are no more allowed. Another side effect is that read.nexus()
2110 now does not replace the underscores (_) in tip labels with spaces
2111 (this behaviour was undocumented).
2113 o The function plot.phylo() has a new option (`underscore') which
2114 specifies whether the underscores in tip labels should be written on
2115 the plot as such or replaced with spaces (the default).
2117 o The function birthdeath() now computes 95% confidence intervals of
2118 the estimated parameters using profile likelihood.
2120 o Three new data sets are included: a gene tree estimated from 36
2121 landplant rbcL sequences, a gene tree estimated from 32 opsin
2122 sequences, and a gene tree for 50 BRCA1 mammalian sequences.
2127 o A bug was fixed in dist.gene() where nothing was returned.
2129 o A bug in plot.mst() was fixed.
2131 o A bug in vcv.phylo() resulted in false correlations when the
2132 option `cor = TRUE' was used (now fixed).
2136 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.0
2141 o Two new functions, read.dna() and write.dna(), read/write in a file
2142 DNA sequences in interleaved or in sequential format.
2144 o Two new functions, read.nexus() and write.nexus(), read/write trees
2147 o The new function bind.tree() allows to bind two trees together,
2148 possibly handling root edges to give internal branches.
2150 o The new function drop.tip() removes the tips in a phylogenetic tree,
2151 and trims (or not) the corresponding internal branches.
2153 o The new function is.ultrametric() tests if a tree is ultrametric.
2155 o The function plot.phylo() has more functionalities such as drawing the
2156 branches with different colours and/or different widths, showing the
2157 node labels, controling the position and font of the labels, rotating
2158 the labels, and controling the space around the plot.
2160 o The function read.tree() can now read trees with no branch length,
2161 such as "(a,b),c);". Consequently, the element `edge.length' in
2162 objects of class "phylo" is now optional.
2164 o The function write.tree() has a new default behaviour: if the default
2165 for the option `file' is used (i.e. file = ""), then a variable of
2166 mode character containing the tree in Newick format is returned which
2167 can thus be assigned (e.g., tree <- write.tree(phy)).
2169 o The function read.tree() has a new argument `text' which allows
2170 to read the tree in a variable of mode character.
2172 o A new data set is included: the phylogenetic relationships among
2173 the orders of birds from Sibley and Ahlquist (1990).
2177 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 0.2-1
2182 o Several bugs were fixed in the help pages.
2186 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 0.2
2191 o The function write.tree() writes phylogenetic trees (objects of class
2192 "phylo") in an ASCII file using the Newick parenthetic format.
2194 o The function birthdeath() fits a birth-death model to branching times
2195 by maximum likelihood, and estimates the corresponding speciation and
2198 o The function scale.bar() adds a scale bar to a plot of a phylogenetic
2201 o The function is.binary.tree() tests whether a phylogeny is binary.
2203 o Two generic functions, coalescent.intervals() and collapsed.intervals(),
2204 as well as some methods are introduced.
2206 o Several functions, including some generics and methods, for computing
2207 skyline plot estimates (classic and generalized) of effective
2208 population size through time are introduced and replace the function
2209 skyline.plot() in version 0.1.
2211 o Two data sets are now included: the phylogenetic relationships among
2212 the families of birds from Sibley and Ahlquist (1990), and an
2213 estimated clock-like phylogeny of HIV sequences sampled in the
2214 Democratic Republic of Congo.
2217 DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
2219 o The function skyline.plot() in ape 0.1 has been deprecated and
2220 replaced by more elaborate functions (see above).
2225 o Two important bugs were fixed in plot.phylo(): phylogenies with
2226 multichotomies not at the root or not with only terminal branches,
2227 and phylogenies with a single node (i.e. only terminal branches)
2228 did not plot. These trees should be plotted correctly now.
2230 o Several bugs were fixed in diversi.time() in the computation of
2233 o Various errors were corrected in the help pages.
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