R: Ape/Phylobase: Unable To Convert Ultrametric, Binary Tree To Hclust Object (Warning Message)
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Timtico ▴ 330

Hello, I've imported a ClustalW2 tree in R using the ape function and read.tree function of the ape package. I estimate molecular ages using the chronopl function, resulting in a ultrametric, binary tree. From which I want to create a R build in dendrogram object.

The tree plots fine, and is a real phylo object. However i'm running into problems when trying to convert it:

Minimal Working Example:

require(ape)
test.tree <- read.tree(file = "G:/ape/testree.phylip", text = NULL, tree.names = NULL, skip = 0,
    comment.char = "#", keep.multi = FALSE)

test.tree.nu <- chronopl(test.tree, 0, age.min = 1, age.max = NULL,
node = "root", S = 1, tol = 1e-8,
CV = FALSE, eval.max = 500, iter.max = 500)

is.ultrametrictest.tree.nu)
is.binary.treetest.tree.nu)
treeclust <- as.hclust.phylo(tree.phylo)

The resulting tree "looks" fine, I test to make sure the tree is ultrametric and binary, and want to convert it into a hclust object, to make eventually a dendrogram object of it.

> is.binary.treetest.tree.nu)
[1] TRUE
> is.ultrametrictest.tree.nu)
[1] TRUE

After trying to make a hclust object out of the tree, I get an error:

> tree.phylo <- as.hclust.phylotest.tree.nu)
Error in if (tmp <= n) -tmp else nm[tmp] : 
  missing value where TRUE/FALSE needed
In addition: Warning message:
In nm[inode] <- 1:N :
  number of items to replace is not a multiple of replacement length

I realize this is a very detailed question, and perhaps such questions which are specifically related to certain packages are better asked somewhere else, but I hope someone is able to help me.

All help is much appreciated,

Regards,

File download The Phylip file can be downloaded here

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Timtico ▴ 330

This problem appears to be related to the version of ape installed, and could be a bug in ape. Version 2.6-2 (latest) produces this bug, while 2.5-3 does not, as someone at stack overflow pointed out to me. I will test this myself

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As an additional data point, your code works for me with ape_2.6-1, R 2.12.0.

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thanks for the testing. I'm unable to revert to an older version, as it seems the old archives don't contain the windows binaries.. (or I'm missing something)

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