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fishtree makes it easy to access phylogenetic information about ray-finned fishes with R. Download taxonomies, phylogenies, sequence matrices, and diversification rate data with a simple set of functions.

Details

Implementation note: this package makes calls over the network and caches its (sometimes large) results for faster loading. Because of this, long-running R instances could use a lot of memory.

Author

Maintainer: Jonathan Chang [email protected] (ORCID)

Other contributors:

  • Michael E Alfaro [contributor]

  • Daniel L Rabosky [contributor]

  • Stephen A Smith [contributor]