R: Find the temporal position of one or more rate shifts

rateshift {phytools}

R Documentation

Find the temporal position of one or more rate shifts

Function finds the location of one or more rate shifts.

rateshift(tree, x, nrates=1, niter=10, ...)

`tree`	object of class `"phylo"`.
`x`	vector of phenotypic trait values for species. `names(x)` should contain the species names and match `tree$tip.label`.
`nrates`	number of rates.
`niter`	number of iterations of optimization routine to ensure convergence.
`...`	optional arguments.

An object of class "rateshift".

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol., 3, 217-223.