Package: ratematrix Title: Bayesian Estimation of the Evolutionary Rate Matrix Version: 1.2.5 Authors@R: c( person("Daniel", "Caetano", email = "caetanods1@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")), person("Luke", "Harmon", email = "lukeh@uidaho.edu", role = "aut") ) Description: The Evolutionary Rate Matrix is a variance-covariance matrix which describes both the rates of trait evolution and the evolutionary correlation among multiple traits. This package has functions to estimate these parameters using Bayesian MCMC. It is possible to test if the pattern of evolutionary correlations among traits has changed between predictive regimes painted along the branches of the phylogenetic tree. Regimes can be created a priori or estimated as part of the MCMC under a joint estimation approach. The package has functions to run MCMC chains, plot results, evaluate convergence, and summarize posterior distributions. URL: https://github.com/Caetanods/ratematrix License: GPL (>= 2.0) Encoding: UTF-8 LazyData: true Depends: R (>= 3.5.0) Imports: ape, geiger, coda, corpcor, MASS, phylolm, readr, mvMORPH, Rcpp, ellipse Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, phytools, markdown VignetteBuilder: knitr LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo RoxygenNote: 7.3.2 Config/pak/sysreqs: libglpk-dev make libxml2-dev libx11-dev Repository: https://phylotastic.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2025-12-08 14:38:01 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/Caetanods/ratematrix RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 214c3d0235f8bca081789aa0d98f8134e66d8187 NeedsCompilation: yes Packaged: 2026-06-07 06:58:39 UTC; root Author: Daniel Caetano [aut, cre], Luke Harmon [aut] Maintainer: Daniel Caetano