All sites are informative under likelihood, but I assume you mean parsimony-informative, in which case all you have to do is count which sites are either (a) uniform or (b) uniform except for differences found only in a single species.

Probably easiest if you convert the read.nexus.data output to a dataframe with as.data.frame, then use unique and == to count the number of states in each site...


On 9/17/11 11:21 AM, Jimmy O'Donnell wrote:
Hi all,

A simple question to which I can't seem to find an answer: is there a way to 
show only the informative sites of a DNA sequence dataset in R?

Thanks,

Jimmy
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