[Phylobase-devl] a graphics challenge ...

[Brian O'Meara]

C++ is a hurdle (R plays better with C), but phylobase already uses  
RCpp to talk between R and C++. I wouldn't advise using TreeLib,  
though, because it's not really distributed in any public way -- it's  
in some of Rod Page's open source programs, and he gives copies and  
example files upon request (at least he did to me), but there's no  
public repository or even static website for it. It has accessors for  
branch lengths and tree traversal, but that is already written  
directly in R for phylobase.

Incorporating Bio++ is interesting -- that project has really  
developed well in the past few years. I think it would be an extensive  
project, and one that, once the investment was made to get the tree  
part working, it would be logical to get the other parts (likelihood  
calculations, bootstrapping, etc.) incorporated, as the hard parts  
would be done. I personally think it would take more time than people  
have been able to put into phylobase recently, and perhaps would be a  
bit chewy for a summer student, though the potential benefits could be  
large. For me, a bigger priority would be stabilizing the current  
phylobase functions and getting it ready to go to CRAN, and I don't  
think adding Bio++ would accelerate this. But that's just one vote.

Brian

On Mar 20, 2009, at 7:49 PM, Hilmar Lapp wrote:

>
> On Mar 18, 2009, at 5:19 PM, Brian O'Meara wrote:
>
>> For tree manipulation (traversal, etc.) in C++ I use Rod Page's
>> TreeLib, which
>> integrates well with NCL.
>
>
> Would this be a good candidate to use for optimizing the data
> representation? Or would C++ be a major hurdle for that?
>
> Another possibility that comes to mind (though it is also written in C
> ++) could be the PhylLib part of Bio++:
>
> http://kimura.univ-montp2.fr/BioPP/Documents/ClassDocumentation/Phyl/
> html/index.html
>
> 	-hilmar
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