motmot: Models of Trait Macroevolution on Trees

Functions for fitting models of trait evolution on phylogenies for continuous traits. The majority of functions are described in Thomas and Freckleton (2012) <doi:10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00132.x> and allow tests of variation in the rates of trait evolution.

Version: 2.1.4
Depends: R (≥ 2.10.0), ape (≥ 3.0-7)
Imports: Rcpp, coda, ks, mvtnorm, caper, methods
LinkingTo: Rcpp
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-04-16
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.motmot
Author: Mark Puttick ORCID iD [aut, cph], Gavin Thomas [aut, cph], Rob Freckleton [aut, cph], Magnus Clarke [ctb], Travis Ingram [ctb], David Orme [ctb], Emmanuel Paradis [ctb], Martin R. Smith ORCID iD [ctb, cre]
Maintainer: Martin R. Smith <martin.smith at durham.ac.uk>
BugReports: https://github.com/ms609/motmot/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
URL: https://puttickbiology.wordpress.com/motmot/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: motmot results

Documentation:

Reference manual: motmot.html , motmot.pdf
Vignettes: MOTMOT: Models Of Trait Macroevolution On Trees (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: motmot_2.1.4.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available
Old sources: motmot archive

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