[R-sig-phylo] Show Informative Sites?

2011-09-19 Thread Leandro Jones
Nick´s rules won´t allways work in a Parsimony context. For example, a position like this one: 1 A 2 A 3 T 4 C would be "informative" under rules (a) and (b), but it is in reality uninformative, as any of the possible trees have a length of 2. Thus, this character tells us nothing about _phylogeny_

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Show Informative Sites?

2011-09-19 Thread Emmanuel Paradis
Hi all, It can be done with phyloch but I forgot the name of the function. HTH Emmanuel -Original Message- From: Leandro Jones Sender: r-sig-phylo-boun...@r-project.org Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:35:32 To: Subject: [R-sig-phylo] Show Informative Sites? Nick´s rules won´t allways work

Re: [R-sig-phylo] Show Informative Sites?

2011-09-19 Thread Nick Matzke
That's what I meant with (b), but it was perhaps too hastily written... On 9/18/11 5:41 PM, Leandro Jones wrote: Nick´s rules won´t allways work in a Parsimony context. For example, a position like this one: 1 A 2 A 3 T 4 C would be "informative" under rules (a) and (b), but it is in reality un