1 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3-4
6 o base.freq() has a new option 'freq' to return the counts; the
7 default is still to return the proportions.
12 o seg.sites() did not handle ambiguous nucleotides correctly: they are
16 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3-3
21 o add.scale.bar() always drew a horizontal bar.
23 o zoom() shuffled tips with unrooted trees.
25 o write.nexus() failed to write correctly trees with a "TipLabel"
28 o rcoal() failed to compute branch lengths with very large n.
30 o A small bug was fixed in compar.cheverud() (thanks to Michael
33 o seg.sites() failed when passing a vector.
35 o drop.tip() sometimes shuffled tip labels.
37 o root() shuffled node labels with 'resolve.root = TRUE'.
41 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3-2
46 o all.equal.phylo() did not compare unrooted trees correctly.
48 o dist.topo(... method = "PH85") did not treat unrooted trees
49 correctly (thanks to Tim Wallstrom for the fix).
51 o root() sometimes failed to test for the monophyly of the
54 o extract.clade() sometimes included too many edges.
56 o vcv.phylo() did not work correctly when the tree is in
59 o nj() did not handle correctly distance matrices with many 0's.
60 The code has also been significantly improved: 7, 70, 160 times
61 faster with n = 100, 500, 1000, respectively.
65 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3-1
70 o The new function is.monophyletic tests the monophyly of a group.
72 o There is now a c() method for lists of class "DNAbin".
74 o yule.cov() now fits the null model, and its help page has been
75 corrected with respect to this change.
77 o drop.tip() has a new option 'rooted' to force (or not) a tree
78 to be treated as (un)rooted.
83 o dist.gene() failed on most occasions with the default
84 pairwise.deletion = FALSE.
86 o read.tree() failed to read correctly the tree name(s).
88 o boot.phylo() now treats correctly data frames.
90 o del.gaps() did not copy the rownames of a matrix.
92 o A small bug was fixed in CDAM.global().
94 o ace() failed with large data sets. Thanks to Rich FitzJohn for
95 the fix. With other improvements, this function is now about 6
98 o write.tree() failed with objects of class "multiPhylo".
100 o drop.tip(, subtree = TRUE) sometimes shuffled tip labels.
105 o [.multiPhylo and [.DNAbin now respect the original class.
107 o Instances of the form class(phy) == "phylo" have been replaced
108 by inherits(phy, "phylo").
110 o rcoal() is now faster.
115 o klastorin() has been removed.
119 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.3
124 o The new functions CADM.global and CADM.post, contributed by
125 Pierre Legendre, test the congruence among several distance
128 o The new function yule.time fits a user-defined time-dependent
129 Yule model by maximum likelihood.
131 o The new function makeNodeLabel creates and/or modifies node
132 labels in a flexible way.
134 o read.tree() and write.tree() have been modified so that they can
135 handle individual tree names.
137 o plot.phylo() has a new argument 'edge.lty' that specifies the
138 types of lines used for the edges (plain, dotted, dashed, ...)
140 o phymltest() has been updated to work with PhyML 3.0.1.
145 o drop.tip() shuffled tip labels in some cases.
147 o drop.tip() did not handle node.label correctly.
149 o is.ultrametric() now checks the ordering of the edge matrix.
151 o ace() sometimes returned negative values of likelihoods of
152 ancestral states (thanks to Dan Rabosky for solving this long
158 o The data set xenarthra has been removed.
162 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-4
166 o The bug fix in read.nexus() in version 2.2-3 was wrong: this is
167 now fixed. (Thanks to Peter Wragg for the fix!)
169 o A warning message occurred for no reason with ace(method="GLS").
174 o There is now a general help page displayed with '?ape'
178 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-3
183 o The new function extract.clade extracts a clade from a tree by
184 specifying a node number or label.
186 o fastme.bal() has two new options 'spr' and 'tbr' to perform tree
187 operations of the same names.
189 o dist.dna() can now return the number of site differences by
190 specifying model="N".
195 o chronopl() did not work with CV = TRUE.
197 o read.nexus() did not work correctly in some situations (trees on
198 multiple lines with different numbers of lines and/or with
199 comments inserted within the trees).
201 o ltt.plot(), ltt.lines(), and mltt.plot() did not count correctly
202 the number of lineages with non-binary trees.
207 o ape has now a namespace.
209 o drop.tip() has been improved: it should be much faster and work
210 better in some cases (e.g., see the example in ?zoom).
214 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-2
219 o dist.gene() has been substantially improved and gains an option
222 o cbind.DNAbin() has a new option 'fill.with.gaps' and is now
228 o prop.part() failed with a single tree with the default option
229 'check.labels = TRUE'.
231 o summary.DNAbin() failed to display correctly the summary of
232 sequence lengths with lists of sequences of 10,000 bases or more
233 (because summary.default uses 4 significant digits by default).
235 o read.nexus() failed to read a file with a single tree with line
236 breaks in the Newick string.
238 o del.gaps() returned a list of empty sequences when there were no
244 o phymltest() has been updated for PhyML 3.0 and gains an option
245 'append', whereas the option 'path2exec' has been removed.
247 o rbind.DNAbin() and cbind.DNAbin() now accept a single matrix
248 which is returned unchanged (instead of an error).
250 o The data sets bird.orders and bird.families are now stored as
251 Newick strings; i.e., the command data(bird.orders) calls
256 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2-1
261 o The new function makeLabel() helps to modify labels of trees,
262 lists of trees, or DNA sequences, with several utilities to
263 truncate and/or make them unique, substituting some
264 characters, and so on.
266 o The new function del.gaps() removes insertion gaps ("-") in a
267 set of DNA sequences.
269 o read.dna() can now read Clustal files (*.aln).
274 o root() failed with 'resolve.root = TRUE' when the root was
275 already the specified root.
277 o Several bugs were fixed in mlphylo().
279 o collapsed.singles() did not propagate the 'Nnode' and
280 'node.labels' elements (thanks to Elizabeth Purdom for the fix).
282 o read.nexus() failed to remove correctly the comments within
285 o read.nexus() failed to read a file with a single tree and no
286 translation of tip labels.
288 o read.nexus() failed to place correctly tip labels when reading
289 a single tree with no edge lengths.
291 o A bug was fixed in sh.test().
296 o unique.multiPhylo() is faster thanks to a suggestion by Vladimir
299 o The option 'check.labels' of consensus() and prop.part() is now
302 o write.dna() now does not truncate names to 10 characters with
307 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.2
312 o Four new functions have been written by Damien de Vienne for the
313 graphical exploration of large trees (cophyloplot, subtrees,
314 subtreeplot), and to return the graphical coordinates of tree
317 o The new functions corPagel and corBlomberg implement the Pagel's
318 "lambda" and Blomberg et al.'s "ACDC" correlation structures.
320 o chronopl() has been improved and gains several options: see its
321 help page for details.
323 o boot.phylo() has now an option 'trees' to possibly return the
324 bootstraped trees (the default is FALSE).
326 o prop.part() has been improved and should now be faster in all
332 o read.dna() failed if "?" occurred in the first 10 sites of the
335 o The x/y aspect of the plot is now respected when plotting a
336 circular tree (type = "r" or "f").
338 o Drawing the tip labels sometimes failed when plotting circular
341 o zoom() failed when tip labels were used instead of their numbers
342 (thanks to Yan Wong for the fix).
344 o drop.tip() failed with some trees (fixed by Yan Wong).
346 o seg.sites() failed with a list.
348 o consensus() failed in some cases. The function has been improved
349 as well and is faster.
353 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1-3
358 o A bug in read.nexus() made the Windows R-GUI crash.
360 o An error was fixed in the computation of ancestral character
361 states by generalized least squares in ace().
363 o di2multi() did not modify node labels correctly.
365 o multi2di() failed if the tree had its attribute "order" set to
370 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1-2
375 o There three new methods for the "multiPhylo" class: str, $,
378 o root() gains the options 'node' and 'resolve.root'
379 (FALSE by default) as well as its code being improved.
381 o mltt.plot() has now an option 'log' used in the same way
382 than in plot.default().
387 o mltt.plot() failed to display the legend with an unnamed
390 o nodelabels() with pies now correcly uses the argument
391 'cex' to draw symbols of different sizes (which has
392 worked already for thermometers).
394 o read.nexus() generally failed to read very big files.
399 o The argument 'family' of compar.gee() can now be a function
400 as well as a character string.
402 o read.tree() and read.nexus() now return an unnamed list if
405 o read.nexus() now returns a modified object of class "multiPhylo"
406 when there is a TRANSLATE block in the NEXUS file: the individual
407 trees have no 'tip.label' vector, but the list has a 'TipLabel'
408 attribute. The new methods '$' and '[[' set these elements
409 correctly when extracting trees.
413 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1-1
418 o The new function rmtree generates lists of random trees.
420 o rcoal() now generates a genuine coalescent tree by default
421 (thanks to Vladimir Minin for the code).
426 o nuc.div() returned an incorrect value with the default
427 pairwise.deletion = FALSE.
432 o The internal codes of bionj(), fastme.bal(), and fastme.ols()
433 have been improved so that they are stabler and faster.
435 o R packages used by ape are now loaded silently; lattice and gee
436 are loaded only when needed.
440 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.1
445 o The new function identify.phylo identifies clades on a plotted
446 tree using the mouse.
448 o It is now possible to subset a list of trees (object of class
449 "multiPhylo") with "[" while keeping its class correct.
451 o The new function as.DNAbin.alignment converts DNA sequences
452 stored in the "alignment" format of the package seqinr into
453 an object of class "DNAbin".
455 o The new function weight.taxo2 helps to build similarity matrices
456 given two taxonomic levels (usually called by other functions).
458 o write.tree() can now take a list of trees (class "multiPhylo")
459 as its main argument.
461 o plot.correlogram() and plot.correlogramList() have been
462 improved, and gain several options (see the help page for
463 details). A legend is now plotted by default.
468 o dist.dna() returned some incorrect values with `model = "JC69"'
469 and `pairwise.deletion = TRUE'. This affected only the
470 distances involving sequences with missing values. (Thanks
471 to Bruno Toupance for digging this bug out.)
473 o write.tree() failed with some trees: this is fixed by removing
474 the `multi.line' option (trees are now always printed on a
477 o read.nexus() did not correctly detect trees with multiple root
478 edges (see OTHER CHANGES).
483 o The code of mlphylo() has been almost entirely rewritten, and
484 should be much stabler. The options have been also greatly
485 simplified (see ?mlphylo and ?DNAmodel for details).
487 o The internal function nTips has been renamed klastorin_nTips.
489 o The code of is.ultrametric() contained redundancies and has
492 o The code of Moran.I() and of correlogram.formula() have been
495 o read.tree() and read.nexus() now return an error when trying to
496 read a tree with multiple root edges (see BUG FIXES). The
497 correction applied in previous version did not work in all
500 o The class c("multi.tree", "phylo") has been renamed
506 o There is now a vignette in ape: see vignette("MoranI", "ape").
511 o as.matching() and as.phylo.matching() do not support branch
514 o correlogram.phylo() and discrete.dist() have been removed.
518 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.0-2
523 o The new function matexpo computes the exponential of a square
526 o The new function unique.multi.tree removes duplicate trees from
529 o yule() has a new option `use.root.edge = FALSE' that specifies
530 to ignore, by default, the root edge of the tree if it exists.
535 o which.edge() failed when the index of a single terminal edge was
538 o In diversi.time(), the values returned for model C were
541 o A bug was fixed in yule() that affected the calculation of the
542 likelihood in the presence of ties in the branching times.
544 o There was a bug in the C function mat_expo4x4 affecting the
545 calculations of the transition probabilities for models HKY and
548 o A small bug was fixed in as.matrix.DNAbin (thanks to James
551 o rtree() did not `shuffle' the tip labels by default, so only a
552 limited number of labelled topologies could be generated.
556 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 2.0-1
561 o The three new functions bionj, fastme.ols, and fastme.bal
562 perform phylogeny estimation by the BIONJ and fastME methods in
563 OLS and balanced versions. This is a port to R of previous
564 previous programs done by Vincent Lefort.
566 o The new function chronoMPL performs molecular dating with the
567 mean path lengths method of Britton et al. (2002, Mol. Phyl.
570 o The new function rotate, contributed by Christoph Heibl, swaps
571 two clades connected to the same node. It works also with
572 multichotomous nodes.
574 o The new `method' as.matrix.DNAbin() may be used to convert
575 easily DNA sequences stored in a list into a matrix while
576 keeping the names and the class.
581 o chronopl() failed when some branch lengths were equal to zero:
582 an error message is now returned.
584 o di2multi() failed when there was a series of consecutive edges
589 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.10-2
594 o plot.phylo() can now plot circular trees: the option is type =
595 "fan" or type = "f" (to avoid the ambiguity with type = "c").
597 o prop.part() has a new option `check.labels = FALSE' which allows
598 to considerably speed-up the calculations of bipartitions. As a
599 consequence, calculations of bootstrap values with boot.phylo()
600 should be much faster.
605 o read.GenBank() did not return correctly the list of species as
606 from ape 1.10: this is fixed in this version
608 o Applying as.phylo() on a tree of class "phylo" failed: the
609 object is now returned unchanged.
613 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.10-1
618 o The three new functions Ntip, Nnode, and Nedge return, for a
619 given tree, the number of tips, nodes, or edges, respectively.
624 o read.nexus() did not set correctly the class of the returned
625 object when reading multiple trees.
627 o mllt.plot() failed with objects of class c("multi.tree",
630 o unroot() did not work correctly in most cases.
632 o reorder.phylo() made R freeze in some occasions.
634 o Plotting a tree in pruningwise order failed.
636 o When plotting an unrooted tree, the tip labels where not all
637 correctly positioned if the option `cex' was used.
641 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.10
646 o Five new `method' functions have been introduced to manipulate
647 DNA sequences in binary format (see below).
649 o Three new functions have been introduced to convert between the
650 new binary and the character formats.
652 o The new function as.alignment converts DNA sequences stored as
653 single characters into the class "alignment" used by the package
656 o read.dna() and read.GenBank() have a new argument `as.character'
657 controlling whether the sequences are returned in binary format
663 o root() failed when the tree had node labels: this is fixed.
665 o plot.phylo() did not correctly set the limits on the y-axis with
666 the default setting: this is fixed.
668 o dist.dna() returned a wrong result for the LogDet, paralinear,
669 and BH87 models with `pairwise.deletion = TRUE'.
674 o DNA sequences are now internally stored in a binary format. See
675 the document "A Bit-Level Coding Scheme for Nucleotides" for the
676 details. Most functions analyzing DNA functions have been
677 modified accordingly and are now much faster (dist.dna is now
678 ca. 60 times faster).
682 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-4
687 o A bug was fixed in edgelabels().
689 o as.phylo.hclust() did not work correctly when the object of
690 class "hclust" has its labels set to NULL: the returned tree has
691 now its tip labels set to "1", "2", ...
693 o consensus could fail if some tip labels are a subset of others
694 (e.g., "a" and "a_1"): this is now fixed.
696 o mlphylo() failed in most cases if some branch lengths of the
697 initial tree were greater than one: an error message is now
700 o mlphylo() failed in most cases when estimating the proportion of
701 invariants: this is fixed.
705 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-3
710 o The new function edgelabels adds labels on the edge of the tree
711 in the same way than nodelabels or tiplabels.
716 o multi2di() did not handle correctly branch lengths with the
717 default option `random = TRUE': this is now fixed.
719 o A bug was fixed in nuc.div() when using pairwise deletions.
721 o A bug occurred in the analysis of bipartitions with large
722 numbers of large trees, with consequences on prop.part,
723 prop.clades, and boot.phylo.
725 o The calculation of the Billera-Holmes-Vogtmann distance in
726 dist.topo was wrong: this has been fixed.
730 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-2
735 o The new function ladderize reorganizes the internal structure of
736 a tree to plot them left- or right-ladderized.
738 o The new function dist.nodes computes the patristic distances
739 between all nodes, internal and terminal, of a tree. It replaces
740 the option `full = TRUE' of cophenetic.phylo (see below).
745 o A bug was fixed in old2new.phylo().
747 o Some bugs were fixed in chronopl().
749 o The edge colours were not correctly displayed by plot.phylo
750 (thank you to Li-San Wang for the fix).
752 o cophenetic.phylo() failed with multichotomous trees: this is
758 o read.dna() now returns the sequences in a matrix if they are
759 aligned (interleaved or sequential format). Sequences in FASTA
760 format are still returned in a list.
762 o The option `full' of cophenetic.phylo() has been removed because
763 it could not be used from the generic.
768 o rotate() has been removed; this function did not work correctly
773 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9-1
778 o Trees with a single tip were not read correctly in R as the
779 element `Nnode' was not set: this is fixed.
781 o unroot() did not set correctly the number of nodes of the
782 unrooted tree in most cases.
784 o read.GenBank() failed when fetching very long sequences,
785 particularly of the BX-series.
787 o A bug was introduced in read.tree() with ape 1.9: it has been
792 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.9
797 o There are two new print `methods' for trees of class "phylo" and
798 lists of trees of class "multi.tree", so that they are now
799 displayed in a compact and informative way.
801 o There are two new functions, old2new.phylo and new2old.phylo,
802 for converting between the old and new coding of the class
805 o dist.dna() has three new models: Barry and Hartigan ("BH87"),
806 LogDet ("logdet"), and paralinear ("paralin").
808 o compute.brlen() has been extended: several methods are now
809 available to compute branch lengths.
811 o write.dna() can now handle matrices as well as lists.
816 o cophenetic.phylo() sometimes returned a wrong result with
817 multichotomous trees: this is fixed.
819 o rotate() failed when a single tip was specified: the tree is now
822 o ace() did not return the correct index matrix with custom
823 models: this is fixed.
825 o multi2di() did not work correctly when resolving multichotomies
826 randomly: the topology was always the same, only the arrangement
827 of clades was randomized: this is fixed. This function now
828 accepts trees with no branch lengths.
830 o The output of diversi.gof() was blurred by useless prints when a
831 user distribution was specified. This has been corrected, and
832 the help page of this function has been expanded.
837 o The internal structure of the class "phylo" has been changed:
838 see the document "Definition of Formats for Coding Phylogenetic
839 Trees in R" for the details. In addition, the code of most
840 functions has been improved.
842 o Several functions have been improved by replacing some R codes
843 by C codes: pic, plot.phylo, and reorder.phylo.
845 o There is now a citation information: see citation("ape") in R.
847 o write.tree() now does not add extra 0's to branch lengths so
848 that 1.23 is printed "1.23" by default, not "1.2300000000".
850 o The syntax of bind.tree() has been simplified. This function now
851 accepts trees with no branch lengths, and handles correctly node
854 o The option `as.numeric' of mrca() has been removed.
856 o The unused options `format' and `rooted' of read.tree() have
859 o The unused option `format' of write.tree() has been removed.
861 o The use of node.depth() has been simplified.
865 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-5
870 o Two new functions read.nexus.data() and write.nexus.data(),
871 contributed by Johan Nylander, allow to read and write molecular
872 sequences in NEXUS files.
874 o The new function reorder.phylo() reorders the internal structure
875 of a tree of class "phylo". It is used as the generic, e.g.,
878 o read.tree() and read.nexus() can now read trees with a single
881 o The new data set `cynipids' supplies a set of protein sequences
887 o The code of all.equal.phylo() has been completely rewritten
888 (thanks to Benoît Durand) which fixes several bugs.
890 o read.tree() and read.nexus() now checks the labels of the tree
891 to remove or substitute any characters that are illegal in the
892 Newick format (parentheses, etc.)
894 o A negative P-value could be returned by mantel.test(): this is
899 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-4
904 o The new function sh.test() computes the Shimodaira-
907 o The new function collapse.singles() removes the nodes with a
908 single descendant from a tree.
910 o plot.phylo() has a new argument `tip.color' to specify the
913 o mlphylo() has now an option `quiet' to control the display of
914 the progress of the analysis (the default is FALSE).
919 o read.dna() did not read correctly sequences in sequential format
920 with leading alignment gaps "-": this is fixed.
922 o ace() returned a list with no class so that the generic
923 functions (anova, logLik, ...) could not be used directly. This
924 is fixed as ace() now returns an object of class "ace".
926 o anova.ace() had a small bug when computing the number of degrees
927 of freedom: this is fixed.
929 o mlphylo() did not work when the sequences were in a matrix or
930 a data frame: this is fixed.
932 o rtree() did not work correctly when trying to simulate an
933 unrooted tree with two tips: an error message is now issued.
938 o The algorithm of rtree() has been changed: it is now about 40,
939 100, and 130 times faster for 10, 100, and 1000 tips,
944 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-3
949 o There are four new `method' functions to be used with the
950 results of ace(): logLik(), deviance(), AIC(), and anova().
952 o The plot method of phymltest has two new arguments: `main' to
953 change the title, and `col' to control the colour of the
954 segments showing the AIC values.
956 o ace() has a new argument `ip' that gives the initial values used
957 in the ML estimation with discrete characters (see the examples
958 in ?ace). This function now returns a matrix giving the indices
959 of the estimated rates when analysing discrete characters.
961 o nodelabels() and tiplabels() have a new argument `pie' to
962 represent proportions, with any number of categories, as
963 piecharts. The use of the option `thermo' has been improved:
964 there is now no limitation on the number of categories.
969 o mlphylo() did not work with more than two partitions: this is
972 o root() failed if the proposed outgroup was already an outgroup
973 in the tree: this is fixed.
975 o The `col' argument in nodelabels() and tiplabels() was not
976 correctly passed when `text' was used: this is fixed.
978 o Two bugs were fixed in mlphylo(): parameters were not always
979 correctly output, and the estimation failed in some cases.
981 o plot.phylo() was stuck when given a tree with a single tip: this
982 is fixed and a message error is now returned.
984 o An error was corrected in the help page of gammaStat regarding
985 the calculation of P-values.
987 o Using gls() could crash R when the number of species in the tree
988 and in the variables were different: this is fixed.
992 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-2
997 o The new function mlphylo() fits a phylogenetic tree by maximum
998 likelihood from DNA sequences. Its companion function DNAmodel()
999 is used to define the substitution model which may include
1000 partitioning. There are methods for logLik(), deviance(), and
1001 AIC(), and the summary() method has been extended to display in
1002 a friendly way the results of this model fitting. Currently, the
1003 functionality is limited to estimating the substitution and
1004 associated parameters and computing the likelihood.
1006 o The new function drop1.compar.gee (used as, e.g., drop1(m))
1007 tests for single effects in GEE-based comparative method. A
1008 warning message is printed if there is not enough degrees of
1014 o An error message was sometimes issued by plot.multi.tree(),
1015 though with no consequence.
1019 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8-1
1024 o There is a new plot method for lists of trees (objects of class
1025 "multi.tree"): it calls plot.phylo() internally and is
1026 documented on the same help page.
1031 o A bug was fixed in the C code that analyzes bipartitions: this
1032 has impact on several functions like prop.part, prop.clades,
1033 boot.phylo, or consensus.
1035 o root() did not work correctly when the specified outgroup had
1036 more than one element: this is fixed.
1038 o dist.dna() sometimes returned a warning inappropriately: this
1041 o If the distance object given to nj() had no rownames, nj()
1042 returned a tree with no tip labels: it now returns tips labelled
1043 "1", "2", ..., corresponding to the row numbers.
1048 o nj() has been slightly changed so that tips with a zero distance
1049 are first aggregated with zero-lengthed branches; the usual NJ
1050 procedure is then performed on a distance matrix without 0's.
1054 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.8
1059 o The new function chronopl() estimates dates using the penalized
1060 likelihood method by Sanderson (2002; Mol. Biol. Evol., 19:101).
1062 o The new function consensus() calculates the consensus tree of a
1065 o The new function evolve.phylo() simulates the evolution of
1066 continuous characters along a phylogeny under a Brownian model.
1068 o The new plot method for objects of class "ancestral" displays a
1069 tree together with ancestral values, as returned by the above
1072 o The new function as.phylo.formula() returns a phylogeny from a
1073 set of nested taxonomic variables given as a formula.
1075 o The new function read.caic() reads trees in CAIC format.
1077 o The new function tiplabels() allows to add labels to the tips
1078 of a tree using text or plotting symbols in a flexible way.
1080 o The new function unroot() unroots a phylogeny.
1082 o multi2di() has a new option, `random', which specifies whether
1083 to resolve the multichotomies randomly (the default) or not.
1085 o prop.part() now returns an object of class "prop.part" for which
1086 there are print (to display a partition in a more friendly way)
1087 and summary (to extract the numbers) methods.
1089 o plot.phylo() has a new option, `show.tip.label', specifying
1090 whether to print the labels of the tips. The default is TRUE.
1092 o The code of nj() has been replaced by a faster C code: it is now
1093 about 10, 25, and 40 times faster for 50, 100, and 200 taxa,
1096 o write.nexus() now writes whether a tree is rooted or not.
1101 o Two bugs have been fixed in root(): unrooted trees are now
1102 handled corretly, and node labels are now output normally.
1104 o A bug was fixed in phymltest(): the executable couldn't be found
1107 o Three bug have been fixed in ace(): computing the likelihood of
1108 ancestral states of discrete characters failed, custom models
1109 did not work, and the function failed with a null gradient (a
1110 warning message is now returned; this latter bug was also
1111 present in yule.cov() as well and is now fixed).
1113 o pic() hanged out when missing data were present: a message error
1116 o A small bug was fixed in dist.dna() where the gamma correction
1117 was not always correctly dispatched.
1119 o plot.phylo() plotted correctly the root edge only when the tree
1120 was plotted rightwards: this works now for all directions.
1125 o dist.taxo() has been renamed as weight.taxo().
1127 o Various error and warning messages have been improved.
1131 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.7
1134 o The new function ace() estimates ancestral character states for
1135 continuous characters (with ML, GLS, and contrasts methods), and
1136 discrete characters (with ML only) for any number of states.
1138 o The new function compar.ou() fits the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck model
1139 of directional evolution for continuous characters. The user
1140 specifies the node(s) of the tree where the character optimum
1143 o The new function is.rooted() tests whether a tree (of class
1146 o The new function rcoal() generates random ultrametric trees with
1147 the possibility to specify the function that generates the
1148 inter-nodes distances.
1150 o The new function mrca() gives for all pairs of tips in a tree
1151 (and optionally nodes too) the most recent common ancestor.
1153 o nodelabels() has a new option `thermo' to plot proportions (up
1154 to three classes) on the nodes of a tree.
1156 o rtree() has been improved: it can now generate rooted or
1157 unrooted trees, and the mathematical function that generates the
1158 branch lengths may be specified by the user. The tip labels may
1159 be given directly in the call to rtree. The limit cases (n = 2,
1160 3) are now handled correctly.
1162 o dist.topo() has a new argument `method' with two choices: "PH85"
1163 for Penny and Henny's method (already available before and now
1164 the default), and "BHV01" for the geometric distance by Billera
1165 et al. (2001, Adv. Appl. Math. 27:733).
1167 o write.tree() has a new option, `digits', which specifies the
1168 number of digits to be printed in the Newick tree. By default
1169 digits = 10. The numbers are now always printed in decimal form
1170 (i.e., 1.0e-1 is now avoided).
1172 o dist.dna() can now compute the raw distances between pairs of
1173 DNA sequences by specifying model = "raw".
1175 o dist.phylo() has a new option `full' to possibly compute the
1176 distances among all tips and nodes of the tree. The default if
1182 o Several bugs were fixed in all.equal.phylo().
1184 o dist.dna() did not handle correctly gaps ("-") in alignments:
1185 they are now considered as missing data.
1187 o rotate() did not work if the tips were not ordered: this is
1190 o mantel.test() returned NA in some special cases: this is fixed
1191 and the function has been improved and is now faster.
1193 o A bug was fixed in diversi.gof() where the calculation of A² was
1196 o cherry() did not work correctly under some OSs (mainly Linux):
1199 o is.binary.tree() has been modified so that it works with both
1200 rooted and unrooted trees.
1202 o The documentation of theta.s() was not correct: this has been
1205 o plot.mst() did not work correctly: this is fixed.
1209 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.6
1214 o The new function dist.topo() computes the topological distances
1217 o The new function boot.phylo() performs a bootstrap analysis on
1218 phylogeny estimation.
1220 o The new functions prop.part() and prop.clades() analyse
1221 bipartitions from a series of trees.
1226 o read.GenBank() now uses the EFetch utility of NCBI instead of
1227 the usual Web interface: it is now much faster (e.g., 12 times
1228 faster to retrieve 8 sequences, 37 times for 60 sequences).
1233 o Several bugs were fixed in read.dna().
1235 o Several bugs were fixed in diversi.time().
1237 o is.binary.tree() did not work correctly if the tree has no edge
1238 lengths: this is fixed.
1240 o drop.tip() did not correctly propagated the `node.label' of a
1241 tree: this is fixed.
1245 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.5
1250 o Two new functions, as.matching.phylo() and as.phylo.matching(),
1251 convert objects between the classes "phylo" and "matching". The
1252 latter implements the representation of binary trees introduced by
1253 Diaconis and Holmes (1998; PNAS 95:14600). The generic function
1254 as.matching() has been introduced as well.
1256 o Two new functions, multi2di() and di2multi(), allow to resolve
1257 and collapse multichotomies with branches of length zero.
1259 o The new function nuc.div() computes the nucleotide diversity
1260 from a sample a DNA sequences.
1262 o dist.dna() has been completely rewritten with a much faster
1263 (particularly for large data sets) C code. Eight models are
1264 available: JC69, K80, F81, K81, F84, T92, TN93, and GG95 (the
1265 option `method' has been renamed `model'). Computation of variance
1266 is available for all models. A gamma-correction is possible for
1267 JC69, K80, F81, and TN93. There is a new option, pairwise.deletion,
1268 to remove sites with missing data on a pairwise basis. The option
1269 `GCcontent' has been removed.
1271 o read.GenBank() has a new option (species.names) which specifies
1272 whether to return the species names of the organisms in addition
1273 to the accession numbers of the sequences (this is the default
1276 o write.nexus() can now write several trees in the same NEXUS file.
1278 o drop.tip() has a new option `root.edge' that allows to specify the
1279 new root edge if internal branches are trimmed.
1284 o as.phylo.hclust() failed if some labels had parentheses: this
1287 o Several bugs were fixed in all.equal.phylo(). This function now
1288 returns the logical TRUE if the trees are identical but with
1289 different representations (a report was printed previously).
1291 o read.GenBank() did not correctly handle ambiguous base codes:
1297 o birthdeath() now returns an object of class "birthdeath" for
1298 which there is a print method.
1302 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.4
1307 o The new function nj() performs phylogeny estimation with the
1308 neighbor-joining method of Saitou and Nei (1987; Mol. Biol.
1311 o The new function which.edge() identifies the edges of a tree
1312 that belong to a group specified as a set of tips.
1314 o The new function as.phylo.phylog() converts an object of class
1315 "phylog" (from the package ade4) into an object of class
1318 o The new function axisPhylo() draws axes on the side of a
1321 o The new function howmanytrees() calculates the number of trees
1322 in different cases and giving a number of tips.
1324 o write.tree() has a new option `multi.line' (TRUE by default) to
1325 write a Newick tree on several lines rather than on a single
1328 o The functionalities of zoom() have been extended. Several
1329 subtrees can be visualized at the same time, and they are marked
1330 on the main tree with colors. The context of the subtrees can be
1331 marked with the option `subtree' (see below).
1333 o drop.tip() has a new option `subtree' (FALSE by default) which
1334 specifies whether to output in the tree how many tips have been
1337 o The arguments of add.scale.bar() have been redefined and have
1338 now default values (see ?add.scale.bar for details). This
1339 function now works even if the plotted tree has no edge length.
1341 o plot.phylo() can now plot radial trees, but this does not take
1342 edge lengths into account.
1344 o In plot.phylo() with `type = "phylogram"', if the values of
1345 `edge.color' and `edge.width' are identical for sister-branches,
1346 they are propagated to the vertical line that link them.
1351 o Repeated calls to as.phylo.hclust() or as.hclust.phylo() made R
1352 crashing. This is fixed.
1354 o In plot.phylo(), the options `edge.color' and `edge.width' are
1355 now properly recycled; their default values are now "black" and
1358 o A bug has been fixed in write.nexus().
1363 o The function node.depth.edgelength() has been removed and
1364 replaced by a C code.
1368 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.3-1
1373 o The new function nodelabels() allows to add labels to the nodes
1374 of a tree using text or plotting symbols in a flexible way.
1376 o In plot.phylo() the arguments `x.lim' and `y.lim' can now be two
1377 numeric values specifying the lower and upper limits on the x-
1378 and y-axes. This allows to leave some space on any side of the
1379 tree. If a single value is given, this is taken as the upper
1384 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.3
1389 o The new function phymltest() calls the software PHYML and fits
1390 28 models of DNA sequence evolution. There are a print method to
1391 display likelihood and AIC values, a summary method to compute
1392 the hierarchical likelihood ratio tests, and a plot method to
1393 display graphically the AIC values of each model.
1395 o The new function yule.cov() fits the Yule model with covariates,
1396 a model where the speciation rate is affected by several species
1397 traits through a generalized linear model. The parameters are
1398 estimated by maximum likelihood.
1400 o Three new functions, corBrownian(), corGrafen(), and
1401 corMartins(), compute the expected correlation structures among
1402 species given a phylogeny under different models of evolution.
1403 These can be used for GLS comparative phylogenetic methods (see
1404 the examples). There are coef() and corMatrix() methods and an
1405 Initialize.corPhyl() function associated.
1407 o The new function compar.cheverud() implements Cheverud et al.'s
1408 (1985; Evolution 39:1335) phylogenetic comparative method.
1410 o The new function varcomp() estimates variance components; it has
1413 o Two new functions, panel.superpose.correlogram() and
1414 plot.correlogramList(), allow to plot several phylogenetic
1417 o The new function node.leafnumber() computes the number of leaves
1418 of a subtree defined by a particular node.
1420 o The new function node.sons() gets all tags of son nodes from a
1423 o The new function compute.brlen() computes the branch lengths of
1424 a tree according to a specified method.
1426 o plot.phylo() has three new options: "cex" controls the size of
1427 the (tip and node) labels (thus it is no more needed to change
1428 the global graphical parameter), "direction" which allows to
1429 plot the tree rightwards, leftwards, upwards, or downwards, and
1430 "y.lim" which sets the upper limit on the y-axis.
1435 o Some functions which try to match tip labels and names of
1436 additional data (e.g. vector) are likely to fail if there are
1437 typing or syntax errors. If both series of names do not perfectly
1438 match, they are ignored and a warning message is now issued.
1439 These functions are bd.ext, compar.gee, pic. Their help pages
1440 have been clarified on this point.
1444 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-7
1449 o The new function root() reroots a phylogenetic tree with respect
1450 to a specified outgroup.
1452 o The new function rotate() rotates an internal branch of a tree.
1454 o In plot.phylo(), the new argument "lab4ut" (labels for unrooted
1455 trees) controls the display of the tip labels in unrooted trees.
1456 This display has been greatly improved: the tip labels are now not
1457 expected to overlap with the tree (particularly if lab4ut =
1458 "axial"). In all cases, combining appropriate values of "lab4ut"
1459 and the font size (via "par(cex = )") should result in readable
1460 unrooted trees. See ?plot.phylo for some examples.
1462 o In drop.tip(), the argument `tip' can now be numeric or character.
1467 o drop.tip() did not work correctly with trees with no branch
1468 lengths: this is fixed.
1470 o A bug in plot.phylo(..., type = "unrooted") made some trees being
1471 plotted with some line crossings: this is now fixed.
1475 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-6
1480 o Six new functions (Moran.I, correlogram.formula, discrete.dist,
1481 correlogram.phylo, dist.taxo, plot.correlogram) have been added
1482 to implement comparative methods with an autocorrelation approach.
1484 o A new data set describing some life history traits of Carnivores
1490 o A fix was made on mcmc.popsize() to conform to R 2.0.0.
1495 o When plotting a tree with plot.phylo(), the new default of the
1496 option `label.offset' is now 0, so the labels are always visible.
1500 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-5
1505 o The new function bd.ext() fits a birth-death model with combined
1506 phylogenetic and taxonomic data, and estimates the corresponding
1507 speciation and extinction rates.
1512 o The package gee is no more required by ape but only suggested
1513 since only the function compar.gee() calls gee.
1517 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-4
1522 o Four new functions (mcmc.popsize, extract.popsize, plot.popsize,
1523 and lines.popsize) implementing a new approach for inferring the
1524 demographic history from genealogies using a reversible jump
1525 MCMC have been introduced.
1527 o The unit of time in the skyline plot and in the new plots can
1528 now be chosen to be actual years, rather than substitutions.
1532 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-3
1537 o The new function rtree() generates a random binary tree with or
1538 without branch lengths.
1540 o Two new functions for drawing lineages-through-time (LTT) plots
1541 are provided: ltt.lines() adds a LTT curve to an existing plot,
1542 and mltt.plot() does a multiple LTT plot giving several trees as
1543 arguments (see `?ltt.plot' for details).
1548 o Some taxon names made R crashing when calling as.phylo.hclust():
1551 o dist.dna() returned an error with two identical DNA sequences
1552 (only using the Jukes-Cantor method returned 0): this is fixed.
1557 o The function dist.phylo() has been re-written using a different
1558 algorithm: it is now about four times faster.
1560 o The code of branching.times() has been improved: it is now about
1565 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-2
1570 o The new function seg.sites() finds the segregating sites in a
1571 sample of DNA sequences.
1576 o A bug introduced in read.tree() and in read.nexus() with version
1579 o A few errors were corrected and a few examples were added in the
1584 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2-1
1589 o plot.phylo() can now draw the edge of the root of a tree if it
1590 has one (see the new option `root.edge', its default is FALSE).
1595 o A bug was fixed in read.nexus(): files with semicolons inside
1596 comment blocks were not read correctly.
1598 o The behaviour of read.tree() and read.nexus() was corrected so
1599 that tree files with badly represented root edges (e.g., with
1600 an extra pair of parentheses, see the help pages for details)
1601 are now correctly represented in the object of class "phylo";
1602 a warning message is now issued.
1606 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.2
1611 o plot.phylo() has been completely re-written and offers several
1612 new functionalities. Three types of trees can now be drawn:
1613 phylogram (as previously), cladogram, and unrooted tree; in
1614 all three types the branch lengths can be drawn using the edge
1615 lengths of the phylogeny or not (e.g., if the latter is absent).
1616 The vertical position of the nodes can be adjusted with two
1617 choices (see option `node.pos'). The code has been re-structured,
1618 and two new functions (potentially useful for developpers) are
1619 documented separately: node.depth.edgelength() and node.depth();
1620 see the respective help pages for details.
1622 o The new function zoom() allows to explore very large trees by
1623 focusing on a small portion of it.
1625 o The new function yule() fits by maximum likelihood the Yule model
1626 (birth-only process) to a phylogenetic tree.
1628 o Support for writing DNA sequences in FASTA format has been
1629 introduced in write.dna() (support for reading sequences in
1630 this format was introduced in read.dna() in version 1.1-2).
1631 The function has been completely re-written, fixing some bugs
1632 (see below); the default behaviour is no more to display the
1633 sequences on the standard output. Several options have been
1634 introduced to control the sequence printing in a flexible
1635 way. The help page has been extended.
1637 o A new data set is included: a supertree of bats in NEXUS format.
1642 o In theta.s(), the default of the option `variance' has
1643 been changed to `FALSE' (as was indicated in the help page).
1645 o Several bugs were fixed in the code of all.equal.phylo().
1647 o Several bugs were fixed in write.dna(), particularly this
1648 function did not work with `format = "interleaved"'.
1650 o Various errors were corrected in the help pages.
1655 o The argument names of as.hclust.phylo() have been changed
1656 from "(phy)" to "(x, ...)" to conform to the definition of
1657 the corresponding generic function.
1659 o gamma.stat() has been renamed gammaStat() to avoid confusion
1660 since gamma() is a generic function.
1664 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1-3
1669 o base.freq() previously did not return a value of 0 for
1670 bases absent in the data (e.g., a vector of length 3 was
1671 returned if one base was absent). This is now fixed (a
1672 vector of length 4 is always returned).
1674 o Several bugs were fixed in read.nexus(), including that this
1675 function did not work in this absence of a "TRANSLATE"
1676 command in the NEXUS file, and that the commands were
1681 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1-2
1686 o The Tamura and Nei (1993) model of DNA distance is now implemented
1687 in dist.dna(): five models are now available in this function.
1689 o A new data set is included: a set of 15 sequences of the
1690 cytochrome b mitochondrial gene of the woodmouse (Apodemus
1696 o A bug in read.nexus() was fixed.
1698 o read.dna() previously did not work correctly in most cases.
1699 The function has been completely re-written and its help page
1700 has been considerably extended (see ?read.dna for details).
1701 Underscores (_) in taxon names are no more replaced with
1702 spaces (this behaviour was undocumented).
1704 o A bug was fixed in write.dna().
1708 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1-1
1713 o A bug in read.tree() introduced in APE 1.1 was fixed.
1715 o A bug in compar.gee() resulted in an error when trying to fit
1716 a model with `family = "binomial"'. This is now fixed.
1720 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.1
1725 o The Klastorin (1982) method as suggested by Misawa and Tajima
1726 (2000, Mol. Biol. Evol. 17:1879-1884) for classifying genes
1727 on the basis of phylogenetic trees has been implemented (see
1728 the function klastorin()).
1730 o Functions have been added to convert APE's "phylo" objects in
1731 "hclust" cluster objects and vice versa (see the help page of
1732 as.phylo for details).
1734 o Three new functions, ratogram(), chronogram() and NPRS.criterion(),
1735 are introduced for the estimation of absolute evolutionary rates
1736 (ratogram) and dated clock-like trees (chronogram) from
1737 phylogenetic trees using the non-parametric rate smoothing approach
1738 by MJ Sanderson (1997, Mol. Biol. Evol. 14:1218-1231).
1740 o A summary method is now provided printing a summary information on a
1741 phylogenetic tree with, for instance, `summary(tree)'.
1743 o The behaviour of read.tree() was changed so that all spaces and
1744 tabulations in tree files are now ignored. Consequently, spaces in tip
1745 labels are no more allowed. Another side effect is that read.nexus()
1746 now does not replace the underscores (_) in tip labels with spaces
1747 (this behaviour was undocumented).
1749 o The function plot.phylo() has a new option (`underscore') which
1750 specifies whether the underscores in tip labels should be written on
1751 the plot as such or replaced with spaces (the default).
1753 o The function birthdeath() now computes 95% confidence intervals of
1754 the estimated parameters using profile likelihood.
1756 o Three new data sets are included: a gene tree estimated from 36
1757 landplant rbcL sequences, a gene tree estimated from 32 opsin
1758 sequences, and a gene tree for 50 BRCA1 mammalian sequences.
1763 o A bug was fixed in dist.gene() where nothing was returned.
1765 o A bug in plot.mst() was fixed.
1767 o A bug in vcv.phylo() resulted in false correlations when the
1768 option `cor = TRUE' was used (now fixed).
1772 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 1.0
1777 o Two new functions, read.dna() and write.dna(), read/write in a file
1778 DNA sequences in interleaved or in sequential format.
1780 o Two new functions, read.nexus() and write.nexus(), read/write trees
1783 o The new function bind.tree() allows to bind two trees together,
1784 possibly handling root edges to give internal branches.
1786 o The new function drop.tip() removes the tips in a phylogenetic tree,
1787 and trims (or not) the corresponding internal branches.
1789 o The new function is.ultrametric() tests if a tree is ultrametric.
1791 o The function plot.phylo() has more functionalities such as drawing the
1792 branches with different colours and/or different widths, showing the
1793 node labels, controling the position and font of the labels, rotating
1794 the labels, and controling the space around the plot.
1796 o The function read.tree() can now read trees with no branch length,
1797 such as "(a,b),c);". Consequently, the element `edge.length' in
1798 objects of class "phylo" is now optional.
1800 o The function write.tree() has a new default behaviour: if the default
1801 for the option `file' is used (i.e. file = ""), then a variable of
1802 mode character containing the tree in Newick format is returned which
1803 can thus be assigned (e.g., tree <- write.tree(phy)).
1805 o The function read.tree() has a new argument `text' which allows
1806 to read the tree in a variable of mode character.
1808 o A new data set is included: the phylogenetic relationships among
1809 the orders of birds from Sibley and Ahlquist (1990).
1813 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 0.2-1
1818 o Several bugs were fixed in the help pages.
1822 CHANGES IN APE VERSION 0.2
1827 o The function write.tree() writes phylogenetic trees (objects of class
1828 "phylo") in an ASCII file using the Newick parenthetic format.
1830 o The function birthdeath() fits a birth-death model to branching times
1831 by maximum likelihood, and estimates the corresponding speciation and
1834 o The function scale.bar() adds a scale bar to a plot of a phylogenetic
1837 o The function is.binary.tree() tests whether a phylogeny is binary.
1839 o Two generic functions, coalescent.intervals() and collapsed.intervals(),
1840 as well as some methods are introduced.
1842 o Several functions, including some generics and methods, for computing
1843 skyline plot estimates (classic and generalized) of effective
1844 population size through time are introduced and replace the function
1845 skyline.plot() in version 0.1.
1847 o Two data sets are now included: the phylogenetic relationships among
1848 the families of birds from Sibley and Ahlquist (1990), and an
1849 estimated clock-like phylogeny of HIV sequences sampled in the
1850 Democratic Republic of Congo.
1853 DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
1855 o The function skyline.plot() in ape 0.1 has been deprecated and
1856 replaced by more elaborate functions (see above).
1861 o Two important bugs were fixed in plot.phylo(): phylogenies with
1862 multichotomies not at the root or not with only terminal branches,
1863 and phylogenies with a single node (i.e. only terminal branches)
1864 did not plot. These trees should be plotted correctly now.
1866 o Several bugs were fixed in diversi.time() in the computation of
1869 o Various errors were corrected in the help pages.
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