| Title: |
RBrownie: an R package for testing hypotheses about rates of evolutionary change |
| Authors: |
Stack, J. Conrad; Harmon, Luke J.; O'Meara, Brian |
| Source: |
Methods in Ecology and Evolution ; volume 2, issue 6, page 660-662 ; ISSN 2041-210X 2041-210X |
| Publisher Information: |
Wiley |
| Publication Year: |
2011 |
| Collection: |
Wiley Online Library (Open Access Articles via Crossref) |
| Description: |
Summary 1. Maximum likelihood analyses for testing hypotheses about how rates of disparification might vary across clades can provide important insight into the evolutionary process. While the Brownie phylogenetic library can perform such analyses, it does so outside of a general scripting environment. 2. We present RBrownie, an interface between the Brownie phylogenetic library and the R software environment, which provides easy access to the main methods in Brownie (see O'Meara 2008; PhD Dissertation, Nature Precedings), including discrete ancestral state reconstruction. In addition, RBrownie supplies a direct interface to Brownie, allowing advanced users to construct more complex combinations of analyses and to execute any newly added Brownie functions. 3. Overall, it is a package that features evolutionary rate analyses in a flexible and familiar environment. |
| Document Type: |
article in journal/newspaper |
| Language: |
English |
| DOI: |
10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00112.x |
| DOI: |
10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00112.x |
| Availability: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-210x.2011.00112.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.2041-210X.2011.00112.x; https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00112.x |
| Rights: |
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor |
| Accession Number: |
edsbas.2073AA0F |
| Database: |
BASE |