Comparative Analyses of Phylogenetics and Evolution in R

Functions for performing phylogenetic comparative analyses.


README for the caper package

The caper package provides a set of tools for phylogenetic comparative analyses, primary implementations of phylogenetic independent contrasts and phylogenetic generalised least squares. The vignette for the package shows the use of the main functionality.

This README is somewhat incomplete!

Reference manual

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install.packages("caper")

1.0.4 by David Orme, a year ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/caper


Authors: David Orme [aut, cre] , Rob Freckleton [aut] , Gavin Thomas [aut] , Thomas Petzoldt [aut] , Susanne Fritz [aut] , Nick Isaac [aut] , Will Pearse [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports stats, graphics, utils, methods

Depends on ape, MASS, mvtnorm

Suggests xtable, rmarkdown, knitr


Imported by DAMOCLES, bivariatemaps, invasible, motmot, pez.

Depended on by mmodely.

Suggested by MPSEM, diversitree, ecostats, prepR4pcm.

Enhanced by MuMIn.


See at CRAN