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CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.8-1.1
BUG FIXES
o print.DNAbin() did not work well with a single vector (a quite
rare situation in practice).
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.8-1
NEW FEATURES
o write.nexus() has a new option, digitis = 10, similar to the one
with the same name in write.tree(). The help page of the latter
has been clarified (see PR #130 on GitHub).
o kronoviz() has two new options, 'direction' and 'side', to add
more flexibbility to the plot.
BUG FIXES
o plot.phylo() shifted the coordinates when the tree was plotted
left- or downwards (see PR #119 on GitHub).
o Newick strings with a single tip and multiple nodes were not
correctly parsed. Also, if a root edge was present it was not
correctly decoded (see issue #124 on GitHub).
o dist.nodes() returned a (meaningless) result for trees with no
branch lengths (sometimes a segfault occurred). This function
has now the option 'fail.if.no.length = FALSE' so that branch
lengths, if absent in the tree, are fixed to one (with a
warning). An error is returned if this option is set to FALSE.
OTHER CHANGES
o Plotting circular trees has been improved (see PR #129 on GitHub).
o axisPhylo(): the new default is axisPhylo(side = NULL) instead
of axisPhylo(side = 1).
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.8
NEW FEATURES
o dist.topo() has a new option 'mc.cores'. With the default PH85
distance, the gain of using several cores is visible with 200+
trees. The internal code for the score distance has been
improved and is twice faster with a single core, and 4-5 times
faster with mc.cores = 2.
o keep.tip() gains a '...' argument which is passed to drop.tip().
The behaviour of the latter is changed so that node labels, if
available, are used to create new tip labels when subtree = TRUE
(see PR #90 on GitHub).
o nj() can now handle distances stored in long vectors. There was
previously an implicit limit to 46,341 observations (see PR #97
on GitHub).
o del.gaps(), del.colgapsonly(), and del.rowgapsonly() now accepts
objects of class "AAbin". Besides, the class of the input object
is always respected (it used to be "DNAbin" only even when it
had several elements).
o makeNodeLabel() is now generic with methods for the "phylo" and
"multiPhylo" classes.
o unroot() gains two options, 'collapse.singles' and
'keep.root.edge', to handle some complicated situations (see
issue #103 on GitHub).
o read.GenBank() has a new argument 'type' to download AA
sequences. The default is type = "DNA", and the other choice is
type = "AA".
BUG FIXES
o rtt() was fixed when dates include NAs (issue #73 on GitHub).
o njs(), bionj(), bionjs(), fastme.bal(), and fastme.ols() now
check that there are at least three observations in the distance
matrix (issue #84 on GitHub).
o nodelabels(, frame = "circle") used to ignore the argument
'adj'. This is fixed (issue #85 on GitHub).
o write.tree() ignored tree names. This bug was introduced in ape
5.7 (see issue #101 on GitHub).
o read.tree() now reads correctly trees with many nodes but a
single tip such as "(());" (see issue #104 on GitHub).
o bitsplits() failed with large trees. There are now checks on
memory requirements; some explanations have been added in the
help page.
o comparePhylo() failed with two large trees. This is fixed.
OTHER CHANGES
o .uncompressTipLabel() now returns an object of the same class
than the input object (previously the returned object was always
of class "multiPhylo").
o The help page of is.binary() has been clarified that branch
lengths are ignored (issue #83 on GitHub).
o dist.nodes() has an improved internal C code with unlimited tree
size. The code is three times faster with small trees; twice
faster with ~1000 tips (the gain is less with bigger trees).
o ace() now uses node labels, if available, in the output.
o comparePhylo() now restores the graphical window in its previous
state (i.e., after calling layout() if plot = TRUE).
o read.tree() now gives a warning (still returning NULL) if there
is (are) no semicolon(s) [end of tree(s)] in the Newick string.
o write.tree() now gives a warning if the length of the node
labels does not match the number of nodes given by '$Nnode'.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.7-1
BUG FIXES
o Some very unbalanced trees resulted in a segfault (see issue #70
on GitHub).
OTHER CHANGES
o ape 5.7 introduced an implicit dependence on R >= 4.1. This has
been corrected and this version should work with R >= 3.4 (and
certainly with R >= 3.2).
o All examples should now write files in the TMP directory (some
still used to do this in the user's working directory).
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.7
NEW FEATURES
o The new function muscle5 calls MUSCLE5. There are two other new
functions that depend on this program, efastats and letterconf,
to compute summaries for a set of alternative alignments and
display the confidence in each site in HTML, respectively.
o print.LargeNumber() gains the options 'latex' (FALSE by default)
and 'digits' (depends on 'latex').
o drop.tip() and keep.tip() are now generic functions with methods
for the classes "phylo" and "multiPhylo".
BUG FIXES
o A bug was fixed in multi2di() and di2multi() for compressed
"multiPhylo" objects causing an error if the object had to be
reordered internally (see PR #51 on GitHub).
o unroot() now accepts different "order" of the "phylo" object
(see PR #52 on GitHub).
o write.tree(), ladderize(), and balance() failed with very
unbalanced trees (issues #53 and #54 on GitHub).
o PGLS models used a wrong ordering of data if 'species' was a
factor in corBrownian(, form = ~species) or other correlation
structure functions.
o A bug was fixed in the calculations of the variance of the TN93
distance (dist.dna).
o consensus() did not use postprocess.prop.part() and might
scramble nodelabels (see PR #65 on GitHub).
o is.binary.phylo() used to return TRUE with trees such as
((a:1):1,b:2,c:2):1;. This test now conforms with what is
written in the documentation.
OTHER CHANGES
o reconstruct() gains the options 'low_alpha = 0.0001' and
'low_alpha = 1' to allow estimation of values of alpha greater
than 1.
o src/me.c and src/me.h are now OK with -Wstrict-prototypes flag.
o makeNodeLabel(method = "md5sum") now uses the function digest
from the package of the same name. The package tools has been
removed from the Imports list.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.6-2
NEW FEATURES
o plot.phylo() can now plot "tidy" trees with the option type =
"t[idy]" (see: van der Ploeg, 2014, Drawing non-layered tidy
trees in linear time. J. Software: Practice and Experience
44:1467).
BUG FIXES
o is.monophyletic() didn't work correctly with duplicated labels
(issue #50 on GH).
o birthdeath()'s 'if' conditions should be now all of length 1.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.6-1
BUG FIXES
o axisPhylo() misplaced the scale with some trees drawn with
plot(type = "fan").
o The internal code of bitsplits() has been improved and can now
handle all types of unrooted trees.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.6
NEW FEATURES
o The new generic function degree returns the degrees of all nodes
in a tree or network. There are methods for "phylo" and "evonet"
objects.
o The new function solveAmbiguousBases replaces R, Y, W, ... by A,
G, C, or T using columnwise base frequencies.
o There is a new method as.phylo.default() for any object
inheriting the class "phylo".
o read.dna() and read.FASTA() can now read gzipped files.
o where() now works also with objects of class "AAbin". 'NULL' is
now returned, instead of an error, if the sequence is shorter
than the searched pattern (useful with lists with some short
sequences; issue #28 on GH).
o comparePhylo() has a new '...' argument for options passed to
plot.phylo(), and two new options: 'commons' to specify whether
to show the splits in common, and 'location' for the legend (PRs
#41 and #42 on GH).
o The code of dnds() has been rewritten which fixes some minor
bugs, is more robust, and gains the options 'details' to print
the numbers of TS and TV for each degeneracy category, and
'return.category' to return the degeneracy categories of the
original data (see ?dnds for details).
BUG FIXES
o A bug was introduced in read.tree() in ape 5.5 when reading
trees with quoted labels (issue #14 on GH).
o nj() did not duplicate the distances if originally stored in a
"dist" object (issue #12 on GH).
o The double-centered matrix computed by pcoa() is now more
strictly symmetric, thus avoiding complex eigenvalues in some
cases (issue #17 on GH).
o chronos() failed with discrete models when branch lengths were
extremely heterogeneous leading to badly initial rate values.
o multi2di() sometimes resulted in an ultrametric tree to become
non-ultrametric (see issue #23 on GH).
o read.nexus() failed to read correctly files with labels
containing spaces in the TRANSLATION bloc (PR #29 on GH).
o ace(, type = "d") now woks with n = 2.
o drop.tip() used to remove the root edge of a tree if the option
'root.edge = 0' was set. Since the latter is the default, the
side-effect was to possibly turn a rooted tree into an unrooted
one (see issue #32 on GH). The root edge is now removed only if
the option 'rooted = TRUE' is used. The help page has been
clarified on this point.
o as.hclust.phylo() now returns the correct order of leaves so
that plot() does not cross lines (PR #33 on GH).
o unique.multiPhylo() failed with a single tree in the list or
with an empty list (PR #38 on GH).
o trans() failed with a matrix with a single codon. A similar bug
affected as.character.AAbin().
o rTraitDisc() now uses expm::expm unless this package is not
installed in which case ape::matexpo is used.
OTHER CHANGES
o multi2di() is faster as it avoids calling which() repeatedly.
o dist.nodes() now gives an error with an explicit error message
if the tree is too large (i.e., more than 46,340 tips + nodes).
o The default values of the options 'edge.color', 'edge.width',
and 'edge.lty' of plot.phylo() are now taken from the graphical
parameters: par("fg"), par("lwd"), and par("lty"), respectively.
o The visual aspect of circular trees (type = "f" in plot.phylo)
has been improved.
o ace() now accepts trees with some branch lengths equal to zero.
o write.tree() now accepts simple lists of trees.
o chronos(, model = "clock") is a short-cut to specifying model =
"discrete" and a single category of rates in the settings.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.5
NEW FEATURES
o The new functions rtopology and rmtopology generate random trees
with equal frequencies of *labelled* topologies. rtree(,
equiprob = TRUE) now gives equal frequencies of *unlabelled*
topologies. These features are described in the new vignette
"RandomTopologies".
o dist.dna()'s internal code has been improved: it now accepts up
to 2.1 billion sequences each up to 2.1 Gb (see CHANGES in APE
VERSION 4.0 below).
o nj()'s internal code has been improved and is slightly more
efficient: combined with the improved dist.dna(), boot.phylo()
with an NJ tree is now about 10% faster.
o howmanytrees() can now compute (approximately) the number of
binary, (un)rooted, labelled topologies beyond the standard
resolution of numeric values (i.e., > 10^308) thanks to the new
utility function LargeNumber.
BUG FIXES
o bind.tree() sometimes returned badly conformed trees.
o write.FASTA() made R crash if the output file was in a
non-existing directory (thanks to Richel Bilderbeek for the
report).
o ltt.plot.coords() now handles correctly trees with singleton
nodes. This also fixes functions calling this one (e.g.,
ltt.plot).
o estimate.dates() now works with non-bifurcating trees.
o root(phy, outgroup, resolve.root = TRUE) failed to place
correctly the new root if 'outgroup' was of longer two or
more and paraphyletic (although monophyletic once 'phy' was
unrooted).
o pcoa() failed when a single axis was returned.
OTHER CHANGES
o node- and tiplabels(pie = ) now accept data frames (or a
single-column matrix/data frame).
o boot.phylo() now returns integer(0) with a warning if there are
less than 4 rows in the data (argument x).
In case of unrooted trees, the first support value is now NA
(it used to be B, the number of bootstrap replications).
o prop.part() and is now faster thanks to some internal
improvements. This also affects dist.topo() which is twice
faster for small trees, and up to 30 times faster for trees with
1000 tips.
o bitsplits() now gives an error with rooted trees
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.4-1
NEW FEATURES
o rtree() gains several improvements:
* The new option 'equiprob = TRUE' generates all topologies in
equal proportions; 'equiprob = FALSE' generates unbalanced
topologies in higher proportions (as in previous versions of
ape). The latter is the default because several packages use
rtree() with set.seed() in their examples.
* Rooted trees with n = 1 tip can now be simulated.
* Vector of tip labels supplied by the user are now checked and
a warning is issued if its length does not match 'n'.
* The internals of the code have been rewritten and are now more
efficient (particularly if 'equiprob = TRUE').
o multi2di() gains an option 'equiprob' similar to rtree().
o The new function nexus2DNAbin is a helper to convert outputs
from read.nexus.data().
BUG FIXES
o is.monophyletic() might return the wrong answer if the tips were
given as labels not alphabetically sorted.
o boot.phylo() returned bootstrap values all equal to 0.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.4
NEW FEATURES
o The new function getAnnotationsGenBank reads annotations from
GenBank and returns them in data frame(s).
o read.GenBank() gains two options: 'chunk.size' to set the number
of sequences downloaded together, and 'quiet' to display the
download progress (will also display the name of the temporary
file where the sequences were saved). The options 'gene.names'
has been removed.
o The new convenience function latag2n (leading and traling
alignment gaps to N) substitutes leading and trailing gaps in
DNA alignments into N's. The gaps in the middle of the sequences
are left unchanged.
o There are new cbind() and rbind() methods for the class "AAbin".
o seg.sites() gains two options: 'strict' and 'trailingGapsAsN' to
give more flexibility in the presence of ambiguous bases and/or
alignment gaps.
o read.nexus.data() now handles polymorphisms in discrete
characters (however with no distinction between ambiguous or
true polymorphic characters).
o trans() now supports genetic codes 1 to 6 (dnds() still supports
only genetic codes 1 and 2).
o chronos() has been improved with contributions by Santiago
Claramunt:
* Some errors were fixed in the calculation of the log-
likelihood of the "discrete" models with more than one
category of rates.
* Calculations are now faster with "discrete" models.
* A general convergence diagnostic has been added in the output.
Some other contributions by Guillaume Louvel:
* Improved algorithm to find initial dates.
* There is now a parameter 'epsilon' to check convergence.
* The number of iterations is output in the final results.
o Phylogenetic correlation structures (functions with class
"corPhyl") can now specify grouping factors via the arguments
'form' and 'covariates' (which are no more ignored; see examples
in ?ape::corClasses). This can be used, for instance, to specify
species names to match the tree with the covariates.
BUG FIXES
o A bug was fixed in pcoa() (thanks to Jesse Connell).
o A bug was fixed in countBipartitions().
o unroot() did not handle node labels correctly.
o label2table() now keeps all levels in labels (not only the first
three ones.
o A bug was fixed in drop.tip(, root.edge = ).
o rphylo() failed with time-dependent parameters.
o is.monophyletic() now returns an error if some labels are not
found in the tree (thanks to David Winter for the fix).
o read.tree() and read.nexus() crashed R if the numbers of left
and right parentheses in a Newick string were not equal: this is
fixed and an error is now returned.
OTHER CHANGES
o The option 'tbr' in fastme.bal() has been disabled.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.3
NEW FEATURES
o The new function dnds calculates pairwise dN/dS ratios.
o alview() has a new option 'showpos' to display the positions of
the sites (can be a subset of these). Previously, only the
position of the last site was printed.
BUG FIXES
o mantel.test() returned NA if the second matrix had its diagonal
with at least one NA.
o Several bugs were fixed in plot.popsize(). It gains the options
'xlab', 'ylab', and 'log' for more flexible plotting.
OTHER CHANGES
o NAMESPACE has now explicit exports. The present version has 325
exported objects. Most internal functions are not exported, as
well as several methods.
o checkLabel() is now documented.
o The running times of write.tree() now scales with N (number of
trees) instead of N^2: writing 2 million trees with 9 tips now
takes 8 mins instead of 28 hrs with ape 5.2.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.2
NEW FEATURES
o The new function keep.tip does the opposite operation than
drop.tip().
o The new function rDNAbin generates random DNA sequences.
o The new generic function updateLabel changes some (or all)
labels in an object giving two vectors 'old' and 'new' of
labels. There are methods for the following classes: DNAbin,
AAbin, phylo, evonet, data.frame, and matrix.
o read.gff() has a new option 'GFF3' (TRUE by default) to set
correctly the column names of GFF2 (aka GTF) files.
o Xplor() has the new option from = "HOME" which is passed to
Xplorefiles().
o ace() can take state uncertainty for discrete characters into
account: this should be coded with R's NA.
o plotTreeTime() has a new option, color (TRUE by default).
o as.phylo.formula() has a new option, collapse, to add a single
node if a given taxonomic level has only one representative
(contributed by Eric Marcon).
BUG FIXES
o read.FASTA(, type = "AA") failed.
o image.DNAbin() failed with a single sequence.
o write.nexus.data() wrote the binary representation of DNA or AA
sequences.
o read.tree() failed to read correctly single-quoted node labels
unless some tip labels were also single-quoted.
o node.height(, clado.style = TRUE) returned the wrong vector (it
used to return the same result than node.depth().
o tiplabels() did not align labels properly if the tree was
plotted with plot(, type = "fan", align.tip.label = TRUE).
OTHER CHANGES
o print.DNAbin() now prints nicely the total number of bases.
o drop.tip(tr, 1:Ntip(tr), trim.internal = FALSE) now returns a
tree with all the terminal branches of tr removed, unless it has
less than three nodes.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.1
NEW FEATURES
o The new function write.FASTA is much more efficient than
write.dna(, format = "fasta") for very big data set. It can also
write "AAbin" objects into FASTA files.
o The new function comparePhylo compares two trees with optional
plot showing the differences.
o There are three new methods as.AAbin() to convert from
BioConductor for the classes "AAString", "AAStringSet", and
"AAMultipleAlignment".
o read.FASTA() can now read amino acid sequences; it has a new
option type = "DNA" by default.
o write.nexus.data() can now handle continuous and standard data
thanks to a contribution by Thomas Guillerme.
o muscle(), clustal(), and clustalomega() have new arguments to do
tree-guided or progressive alignment, and a new option 'file' to
save the alignment in a file (see ?details). These functions
now handle "AAbin" sequences.
o mantel.test() can now analyse asymmetric matrices following a
suggestion by Andrzej Galecki.
o as.prop.part.bitsplits() gains an option 'include.trivial =
FALSE', and the generic as.prop.part() gains a '...' argument.
BUG FIXES
o as.hclust.phylo() failed with two-tip trees.
o drop.tip(, subtree = TRUE) failed when dropping a single tip.
Thanks to Thomas Sibley for the fix.
o nj() now checks that there are at least three observations.
o chronos() better finds initial dates in difficult situations,
particularly when the root age is unknown.
o chronos() now exits with the current estimates if the plogLik is
NA/NaN. Thanks to Daniel Lang for the fix.
o plot.phylo(phy, type = "p", edge.color = x) failed if 'phy' had
singleton nodes and 'x' was a vector of length > 1.
o bind.tree() failed if the trees had unordered edges. Thanks to
Veronika Boskova for the fix.
o cbind.DNAbin() now checks that the rownames of each matrix are
not duplicated (unless check.names = FALSE).
OTHER CHANGES
o branching.times() now returns a zero-length vector and a warning
if the tree has no branch length (it used to return an error).
o igraph is now a suggested package.
o The as.DNAbin() methods to convert from BioConductor are more
efficient.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 5.0
NEW FEATURES
o ape now supports all types of phylogenetic trees and nerworks
(see details below).
o The new functions read.evonet and write.evonet read and write
files in Newick extended format (Cardona et al. 2008. BMC
Bioinformatics 9:532).
o Four new functions contributed by Franz Krah help to manipulate
AA sequences: methods c(), as.list(), and as.matrix() for the
class "AAbin", and as.AAbin() for lists.
o The new function has.singles tests if a tree has single nodes:
such trees can now be plotted with plot.phylo().
o There are two new convenience functions cladewise() and
postorder() which are short-cuts to reorder(, index.only =
TRUE).
o The new function Xplor shows all data files on the local machine
in a Web browser with clickable links to the directories and
files; it is based on the Xplorefiles() function.
o image.DNAbin() and image.AAbin() gain two options, grid and
show.base (or show.aa), to display a grid and the symbols of the
bases (or amino acids), and three options to control the aspect
of the latter: base.cex, base.font, and base.col (or aa.cex,
aa.font, and aa.col).
o image.AAbin() now shows the polymorphic positions.
o Several internal improvements were made to pcoa(). biplot.pcoa()
gains an optional argument 'main' to add a title.
o tiplabels() has a new option 'offset' to position the labels
with respect to the tips of the tree. This can be used in
combination with 'adj' and works for all types of trees (except
unrooted ones).
o phydataplot(type = "mosaic", continuous = FALSE) allows to
define the colours more flexibly thanks to a suggestion by
Elizabeth Purdom; this can be done if the function passed with
'funcol' returns a named vector. Also, the values are now sorted
alphabetically in the legend.
o phydataplot(type = "mosaic", legend = "none") does not display
the legend.
o read.tree() and read.nexus() can now read trees with singleton
nodes (i.e., nodes of degree 2) thanks to Klaus.
o read.tree() can now read labels with special characters within
single quotes.
o There are reorder() and Nedge() methods for objects of class
"evonet", and a new generic as.evonet() with a method for the
class "phylo".
o LLT() gains a '...' argument (e.g., to use log = "y").
o drop.tip() and extract.clade() gain an option 'collapse.singles'
(TRUE by default).
BUG FIXES
o CADM.*(... make.sym = FALSE) failed: this is now fixed.
o phydataplot(x, , type = "mosaic") now works if x is a vector or
a one-column matrix.
o as.igraph.phylo() has been improved to work with igraph >= 1.0.
o reorder.multiPhylo() failed with compressed lists.
o arecompatible() returned FALSE when comparing two identical
splits.
o as.hclust.phylo() failed if internal branches near the root have
length zero, so sorting the branching times failed due to
rounding errors.
o plot.phylo() failed when branch lengths were very long compared
to the tip labels: use of the plotting space has been improved.
OTHER CHANGES
o getMRCA() is now much faster (thanks to Joseph Brown and Klaus).
o read.tree() and read.nexus() are now based on C code (thanks to
Klaus) and should be several times faster.
o The default read.tree(, comment.char = "#") has been changed to
comment.char = "" so that extended Newick files can be read.
o The internal code of prop.part() and of reorder.phylo() have
been rewritten in C++ and should be several times faster.
collapse.singles(), drop.tip(), and extract.clade() are also
much faster.
o dist.topo() is much faster with the default distance.
o write.tree() and write.nexus() used to replace multiple
underscores or dashes in labels by single ones: they are now
left unchanged. The help page ?write.tree has been clarified on
how tip and node labels are checked before being printed.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 4.1
NEW FEATURES
o The new function read.fastq reads FASTQ files returning a
"DNAbin" object with an attribute "QUAL".
o The new functions Xplorefiles, bydir, and edit.file.extensions
help to find files on the local disk.
o read.FASTA() can now read connections thanks to a contribution
by RJ Ewing: the help page shows how to read *.zip, *.gz, or
*.bz2 files. This function can now read remote files through
secure connections (with HTTPS or FTPS). These also work for
read.dna(format = "fasta").
o read.nexus() has a new option, force.multi (FALSE by default),
to always return an object of class "multiPhylo" even if the
file contains a single tree (to keep the tree name which is lost
in the object of class "phylo").
BUG FIXES
o read.FASTA() crashed when reading a file with no sequence or a
compressed file not identified as such (see above about the
support for connections).
o read.GenBank() failed when at least one accession number was
wrong: it now returns the sequences eventually read and prints a
warning with the accession numbers not read.
o extract.clade() failed with trees previously rooted with
root(resolve.root = TRUE).
o A bug was fixed in estimate.dates().
o A bug was fixed in multi2di.multiPhylo().
o drop.tip() failed when dropping all tips but one.
o nj() now checks for infinite distances (it used to return a
badly conformed tree).
OTHER CHANGES
o chronos() now checks the presence of branch lengths in the tree.
o print.DNAbin() now prints base frequencies until 10 million
bases. The display of labels has been improved.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 4.0
NEW FEATURES
o Two new functions, estimate.mu and estimate.dates, contributed
by Bradley Jones, estimate the mutation rate and the dates for a
rooted phylogenetic tree with dated tips.
o The function plotTreeTime plots a non-ultrametric tree together
with the dates of the tips.
o The new function read.gff reads GFF files.
o The new method all.equal.DNAbin compares two sets of DNA
sequences mainly to compare alignments with a graphical display
of the differences.
o boot.phylo() has two new options: 'jumble' (TRUE by default) to
randomize the order of the rows of the data matrix (and avoid
artificially too large bootstrap values associated with very
short branches), and 'mc.cores' to perform parallel bootstraps.
o reconstruct() now computes ancestral states under directional
models (Brownian with trend and OU; see: Royer-Carenzi, M. and
Didier, G. 2016. A comparison of ancestral state reconstruction
methods for quantitative characters. J Theor Biol, 404:126-142).
o root() has the new option 'edgelabel' to treat node labels as
edge labels so they are associated with the correct edges when
using drawSupportOnEdges (edgelabel = FALSE by default).
o read.GenBank() is faster and more flexible: it can read records
such as contigs or scaffolds (based on a code available on
GitHub for a while).
o is.ultrametric() has a new argument, option, to change the
criterion used to test ultrametricity.
o .compressTipLabel() has a new option (ref = NULL) to constrain
the order of the tips.
BUG FIXES
o plot.phylo() used to fail with NAs in branch lengths: they are
now ignored with a warning.
o plot.phylo(, type = "unrooted", label.offset = 1) used to have
no effect (unless lab4ut = "a" was used).
o checkValidPhylo() failed with trees with a single node.
o unroot() returned badly conformed trees in some situations.
o richness.yule.test() failed when the speciation rate(s) is high:
the code has been improved with better starting values for the
optimization.
o dist.topo() now checks that the trees have the same labels. The
code is ~100 times faster for comparing 100 trees with 100
labels.
o as.character.AAbin() striped matrix rownames (thanks to Shaun
Wilkinson for the report).
OTHER CHANGES
o clustal(), clustalomega(), muscle(), and tcoffee() now give a
more explicit error message when they fail to find the
executable. The help page has been completed and gives some
recommendations.
o "DNAbin" objects larger than 2.1 billion bases (exactly 2^31-1)
can now be handled by most functions in ape. The limitations are
the same than in base R: 2^52 (~4.5*10^15) elements, and the
numbers of rows and columns of matrices cannot exceed 2^31-1.
read.dna() can now read FASTA files larger than 2.1 gigabytes.
Two functions are still limited to 2.1 Gb: dist.dna and
DNAbin2indel (the limit applies to the product of the numbers of
sequences by the sequence length since they work with matrices).
o As a side-effect of the above, several functions are slightly
faster as several calls to .C have been replaced by .Call.
o The following functions are now generic with methods for the
classes "phylo" and "multiPhylo": di2multi, multi2di, Ntip,
Nnode, Nedge, reorder, is.ultrametric, root, unroot, is.rooted,
and is.binary (new function name, see below).
o c.phylo() and c.multiPhylo() have now recursive = TRUE by
default and try to return a list of single trees unless some
objects are not trees or lists of trees.
o image.DNAbin() and image.AAbin() now order rows from top to
bottom.
o read.GenBank() now uses HTTPS in place of HTTP.
o ape now requires R 3.2.0 (or higher).
o boot.phylo() now checks for duplicated labels.
o checkAlignment() now prints the gap lengths that are on the
borders of the alignment.
DEPRECATED & DEFUNCT
o is.binary.tree() is now obsolete and will be removed soon. It
currently calls is.binary().
o The data sets landplants.newick and opsin were removed.
CHANGES IN APE VERSION 3.5
NEW FEATURES
o Eleven new functions are provided to work with the new class
"AAbin":
- trans() translates DNA to AA sequences;
- complement() returns the reverse complement of DNA sequences;
- Six methods to manipulate and display objects of class
"AAbin": print, [, labels, as.character, as.phyDat, and
image (alview() works also on AA sequences);
- New generic as.AAbin() with a method for the class "character";
- dist.aa() computes pairwise Hamming distances;
- AAsubst() returns the indices of polymporphic sites (similar
to seg.sites() for "DNAbin").