[Phylobase-devl] NCL and Mr. Bayes output

[Hilmar Lapp]

On Apr 14, 2008, at 11:07 AM, Brian O'Meara wrote:
> The way we're using the NCL in phylobase is to pass the file name to
> the C++ code, load the file, parse it (which entails storing the taxa
> names in one block object, trees in another, data in a third), and in
> the case of trees pass back basically what would be an exported
> simple nexus tree file that is then read with a modified read.nexus,
> and in the case of data is passed back as the internal R
> representation for the data as a text string that is then eval'ed


Could the tree not be passed back as the internal structure (i.e.,  
the edge matrix), and similarly for the data?

	-hilmar
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