May 23, 2019

2019 R Exercise

Lecture 3.1

Marguerite Butler

An informal session to provide more R practice for those who want to improve their R skills using phylogenetic trees in R as a subject. We will start by asking for topics people would like to discuss or work on. Come with your biggest R frustrations.

R workshop materials

No preparation is required, but you can consult background material:

Background on objects is in Rboot.pdf chapter 3
Background on phylogenetic trees is in Rcomparative.pdf chapter 9 (and more in chapter 10).

Free advice on R programming

Projection

Review of Tree objects and in-session demonstration
Projection by Brian Omeara

Exercise 1 (optional): Manipulating branches on a phylogenetic tree and simulating branch lengths. An exercise in manipulating objects, editing functions, and generating simulations.

R script
Nexus file 
See also Rcomparative chapter 15.8 (but we will be using ape instead of phylobase).

Exercise 2 (optional): Gene Hunting (an exercise in string matching, abstracting, writing functions). Without using grep, write code to find all open reading frames in a  randomly generated DNA sequence.

Exercise
Code starter
Code solution (donʻt peek until youʻve tried it!)
Sample dna sequence
Sample output

Exercise 3 (optional): Verification of PGLS “by hand”. Better understand what is going on in applying a Brownian motion model by “dividing out” the phylogeny on a small phylogeny.

Chapter 1 of R_BM_OUCH_minitutorial.pdf

Exercise 4 (optional): Coding your own BM and OU simulations. To better understand the meaning of the BM and OU parameters, and also to progressively build code of increasing complexity via functions.

Chapter 2 of R_BM_OUCH_minitutorial.pdf

Code:
bmousim.R
OU.sim.branch.R   Try to get here yourself before looking
ou2drgl.R     To do 3D simulations in RGL