Pez: Phylogenetics for the Environmental Sciences

UNLABELLED pez is an R package that permits measurement, modelling and simulation of phylogenetic structure in ecological data. pez contains the first implementation of many methods in R, and aggregates existing data structures and methods into a single, coherent package. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION pez is released under the GPL v3 open-source license, available on the Internet from CRAN (http://cran.r-project.org). The package is under active development, and the authors welcome contributions (see http://github.com/willpearse/pez). CONTACT will.pearse@gmail.com.

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