In R the PhyloPars package might be interesting. Haven’t used it... though. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2703881/ Cheers Franz
Sent from my mobile > On 31. Jul 2018, at 21:04, Nicolay Cunha <nicolaycu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dear list members, > > I would like to test a linear model between a predictor variable (e.g. > altitude) and a dependent variable (e.g. number of flowers). For this, I do > have several observations of individuals of 42 species along the predictor > variable, but the number of observations do vary per each species and class > of the independent variable. In the end, I do have 364 observations > unbalanced per each of the 42 species and environment. > > My intention is doing a model having the number of flower as dependent > variable, the temperature as fixed effect, using species as a random factor > and add a phylogenetic correction. I could do part of this this using GLS, > but the fact of having multiple observations per species do not allow > running the model and returns the following message: > > > *“number of observations and number of tips in the tree are not equal.”* > I would much appreciate if you could give me advices on how to overcome > this issue and run such model. > > Many thanks, > > Nicolay > > Grupo de Ecología de la Polinización, INIBIOMA, > CONICET-Universidad Nacional del Comahue, > Quintral 1250, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Rio Negro, Argentina > > #**************************************************************************************# > > # Below an example code > > > > > > > *library(phytools)tree <- rtree(5, rooted = FALSE, tip.label = > LETTERS[1:5])x <- data.frame( spp = c(sample(c(LETTERS [1:3]),100, > replace = T), sample(c(LETTERS [2:4]),100, replace = > T), sample(c(LETTERS [3:5]),100, replace = T)), > alt = rep(c("1000", "1500", "2000"), each = 100),* > > > > * flower = rnorm(300)) library(nlme)fit <- gls(flower ~ alt, > correlation = corPagel(1,tree, fixed=FALSE), method="ML", data = x) * > > > #**************************************************************************************# > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ > R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo > Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/ [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-phylo mailing list - R-sig-phylo@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-phylo Searchable archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/r-sig-phylo@r-project.org/