R package for Bayesian phylogenetics

Question

[confusedious]

I am currently on the hunt for a good R package for performing BI phylogenetics. I use 'phangorn' for MP and ML and I am very happy with this package, but would like to produce some BI trees for the sake of comparison.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Answer 1

[David W]

There aren't really any: http://cran.r-project.org/web/views/Phylogenetics.html

R is great for many things, by MCMC is not one of them, so I doubt anyone will be write one :)

[confusedious]

Ah, such a shame. 'Phangorn' has a great tree comparison tool and I hoped to do some three way comparisons between a method I'm working on, ML and BI. I can do BI with the 'MrBayes' plugin in 'Geneious' so I guess I'll just do that and then read in a newick of the resultant tree to R.

Thank you for the reply.