What is taxodist? | The distance metric | Basic usage | Getting a lineage | Computing distance between two taxa | Finding the most recent common ancestor | Working with multiple taxa | Pairwise distance matrix | Built-in Clustering and Ordination | Hierarchical Clustering | PCoA | Heatmap visualization | Finding the closest relative | Lineage utilities | Comparing lineages side by side | Listing shared clades | Testing clade membership | Filtering a list of taxa by clade | Coverage and caching | Checking coverage before a large run | Caching | Persisting the cache across sessions | A note on lineage depth | Data source and citation

Example dataset: threatened mammals of Brazil | Phylogenetic tree with ape | Taxonomic diversity with vegan | Clarke and Warwick indices (taxondive) | Mantel test with vegan | PERMANOVA with vegan | A complete workflow | References

Installation | Step 1 — Browse the station catalogue | Step 2 — Download annual archives | Step 3 — Read data into R | Exploring the data | Daily aggregation | Temperature series | Precipitation | Monthly temperature boxplots | Wind speed distribution | Filtering and subsetting | Extracting CSV files | Cache management | Variable reference | Data source

Introduction | Test Battery | Study Conclusion