Hello, I can't get read.nexus (ape) or readNexus (phylobase) to read nexus files downloaded from treebase with URLs parsed from xml files. I can't manually edit each file as I want to read a lot of these files. Is there an easy fix? One of the files is copied below.
Thanks! Scott Chamberlain Rice University, EEB Dept. #NEXUS [!This data set was downloaded from TreeBASE, a relational database of phylogenetic knowledge. TreeBASE has been supported by the NSF, Harvard University, Yale University, SDSC and UC Davis. Please do not remove this acknowledgment from the Nexus file. Downloaded on March 24, 2011; 16:32 GMT TreeBASE (cc) 1994-2008 Study reference: Brown R., & Yang Z. 2010. Bayesian Dating of Shallow Phylogenies with a Relaxed Clock. Systematic Biology, 59(2): 119-131. TreeBASE Study URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/study/TB2:S10165] BEGIN TAXA; TITLE M4787; DIMENSIONS NTAX=16; TAXLABELS Chalcides_coeruleopunctatus_E2806.20 Chalcides_coeruleopunctatus_E2806.22 Chalcides_manueli_E2506.1 Chalcides_mionecton_mionecton_E2506.10 Chalcides_mionecton_mionecton_E2506.12 Chalcides_mionecton_trifasciatus_E2506.18 Chalcides_polylepis_E14124.1 Chalcides_polylepis_E14124.2 Chalcides_polylepis_E2506.21 Chalcides_sexlineatus_bistriatus_E2806.6 Chalcides_sexlineatus_sexlineatus_E2806.8 Chalcides_simonyi_E3007.2 Chalcides_sphenopsiformis_E8121.26 Chalcides_sphenopsiformis_E8121.27 Chalcides_viridanus_E2806.10 Chalcides_viridanus_E2806.14 ; END; BEGIN TREES; TITLE Tb10793; LINK TAXA = M4787; TREE Fig._3c = [&R] ((Chalcides_sphenopsiformis_E8121.26,Chalcides_sphenopsiformis_E8121.27),(((Chalcides_viridanus_E2806.10,Chalcides_viridanus_E2806.14),((Chalcides_sexlineatus_bistriatus_E2806.6,Chalcides_sexlineatus_sexlineatus_E2806.8),(Chalcides_coeruleopunctatus_E2806.22,Chalcides_coeruleopunctatus_E2806.20))),(Chalcides_simonyi_E3007.2,((Chalcides_mionecton_trifasciatus_E2506.18,(Chalcides_mionecton_mionecton_E2506.12,Chalcides_mionecton_mionecton_E2506.10)),(Chalcides_manueli_E2506.1,(Chalcides_polylepis_E14124.1,(Chalcides_polylepis_E14124.2,Chalcides_polylepis_E2506.21))))))); [! TreeBASE tree URI: http://purl.org/phylo/treebase/phylows/tree/TB2:Tr6136] END; [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo
