PANDA: Phylogenetic ANalyses of DiversificAtion

Implements macroevolutionary analyses on phylogenetic trees.

Installation

First, Julia needs to be installed on your computer. If this is not the case, you can install it by following the instructions provided on this page

Within a Julia session, you can install the package by typing

julia> using Pkg
julia> Pkg.add("PANDA")

PANDA uses R functions and packages for plotting. If you want to be able to use the plotting functions, the R language needs to be installed on your computer. You will also need a few R packages to be installed, including : ape, coda, RColorBrewer, fields. You can install them from a R session by typing

> install.packages("ape", "coda", "RColorBrewer", "fields")

You will then be able to load PANDA to Julia by typing

julia> using PANDA

Help

The help of the latest released version of the package is available using this link