abouheif.eg {ade4} | R Documentation

## Phylogenies and quantitative traits from Abouheif

### Description

This data set gathers three phylogenies with three sets of traits as reported by Abouheif (1999).

### Usage

    data(abouheif.eg)

### Format

`abouheif.eg` is a list containing the 6 following objects :

tre1
  is a character string giving the first phylogenetic tree made up of 8 leaves.
vec1
  is a numeric vector with 8 values.
tre2
  is a character string giving the second phylogenetic tree made up of 7 leaves.
vec2
  is a numeric vector with 7 values.
tre3
  is a character string giving the third phylogenetic tree made up of 15 leaves.
vec3
  is a numeric vector with 15 values.

### Source

Data taken from the phylogenetic independence program developped by Ehab Abouheif starting from http://ww2.mcgill.ca/biology/faculty/abouheif/programs.html.

### References

Abouheif, E. (1999) A method for testing the assumption of phylogenetic independence in comparative data. Evolutionary Ecology Research, 1, 895–909.

### Examples

    data(abouheif.eg)
    par(mfrow=c(2,2))
    symbols.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre1), abouheif.eg$vec1,
     sub = "Body Mass (kg)", csi = 2, csub = 2)
    symbols.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre2), abouheif.eg$vec2,
     sub = "Body Mass (kg)", csi = 2, csub = 2)
    dotchart.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre1), abouheif.eg$vec1,
     sub = "Body Mass (kg)", cdot = 2, cnod = 1, possub = "topleft",
      csub = 2, ceti = 1.5)
    dotchart.phylog(newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre2), abouheif.eg$vec2,
     sub = "Body Mass (kg)", cdot = 2, cnod = 1, possub = "topleft",
      csub = 2, ceti = 1.5)
    par(mfrow = c(1,1))

    w.phy=newick2phylog(abouheif.eg$tre3)
    dotchart.phylog(w.phy,abouheif.eg$vec3, clabel.n = 1)

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