I have a custom tree of extinct taxa in the form of an newick file. I want to use R to create a figure of said tree with the each node having the matching period of time. Does anyone know how to do this?
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You can use the package ape to load the newick tree a plot it.
For example:
## Loading the tree
my_tree <- ape::read.tree("path_to_your_tree")
## Plotting the tree
plot(my_tree)
## Adding a scale bar
ape::axisPhylo()
For more fancy plots, I suggest you have an in depth look at the functions in ape, ggtree or strap (for nice geological time scales).
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