Dear All,
I am trying to construct a phylogenetic tree (neighbour joining) using either
APE or PHANGORN in R. But, since I have got 220 strains of bacteria in my data,
the resulted tree is not very clear. The branch labels are so much overlapping
that they cannot be read at all. Is there any wa
Hello,
if onlythe readibility of the labels is the issue, what about using svg()
function? It produces a SVG file which You can open in almost any vector editor
(like Inkscape) andmove the labels around. Chech ?svg for possible settings and
play with them little bit. They vary among operating sy
A similar solution is to create a pdf:
pdf(file="AwesomeTree.pdf", width=10, height=10)
plot(phy)
dev.off()
As you increase the width and height, the labels become proportionally
smaller. You can probably mess around with cex options, too, but this is
the approach I normally use.
Best,
Brian
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Just to throw out another quick suggestion - for a tree with "only" 220
tips you could try a "fan" style plot which plots the tip labels
radially leaving you with a bit more chance of being able to read them.
This is implemented in the plot method for the object class, but also in
phytools::pl
Dear Liam, Brian and Vojtech,
Many thanks for all your guidance. All this was very helpful.
Many thanks,
Rav
On 31 Aug 2016, at 14:16, Liam J. Revell
mailto:liam.rev...@umb.edu>> wrote:
lwd=1,type="fan",fsize=0.7
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