[Treebase-devel] R, apTreeshape, and dbtree

[Todd V. <tj...@bi...>]

All,

An interesting thread from the R-sig-phylo list below.   I believe the only databases that dbtree formerly supported were treebase and pandit.  It might be worthwhile dusting off Aaron Mackey's code for reading NeXML in the R phylobase module and building in support for web service access to TreeBase directly.

Todd

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Eric Durand <eri...@be...>
> Date: September 24, 2010 12:20:15 PM EDT
> To: Andre Levy <and...@gm...>
> Cc: "r-s...@r-..." <r-s...@r-...>
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-phylo] dbtrees
> 
> Hi Andre,
> 
> You are correct, we removed the dbtree function. This is because tree databases were changing too fast and too much, so this function was too difficult to maintain. The best way to access trees is, imo, to go online to the database web interface directly, then download the trees to a local file before reading them into R. 
> 
> Cheers,
> Eric
> 
> On Sep 24, 2010, at 9:16 AM, Andre Levy wrote:
> 
>> Hi All
>> I'm new to R and to APE. Am starting by reading and going through Paradis' book, and have already stumbled on the changes to apTreeshape. Have already found the new pdf package description (dated April 23, 2010; most recent?) and found an older one from 2007. (Also found a pdf describing Ape dated June 2010)
>> 
>> By comparing the two pdfs of apTreeshape I gather that the "dbtrees" function is no longer incorporated. Is there another alternative for grabbing trees from a tree database?
>> 
>> Cheers
>> André Levy
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