Exploring the Phylogenetic Signal in Continuous Traits

A collection of tools to explore the phylogenetic signal in univariate and multivariate data. The package provides functions to plot traits data against a phylogenetic tree, different measures and tests for the phylogenetic signal, methods to describe where the signal is located and a phylogenetic clustering method.

phylosignal

Install

To install the package you can use remotes:

remotes::install_github("fkeck/phylosignal")

Getting started

A quick overview of the package link

Plotting phylogenies and traits values link

Article

Keck F., Rimet F., Bouchez A. & Franc A. (2016) phylosignal: an R package to measure, test, and explore the phylogenetic signal. Ecology and Evolution 6 (9), 2774–2780. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.2051/epdf