Mantel Test of genome size difference and genetic distance in R

Question

[nick.w.jeffery3]

I am trying to conduct a Mantel test in R for 32 species on differences in genome size between each species and the genetic distances for 28S gene between all species. I calculated genetic distance in MEGA6. What is the best way to get this data into R? The MEGA genetic distances are output matrix-style in a CSV file but I don't know how to transform this data into an R-appropriate matrix for the test. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

[Brice Sarver]

read.csv if your data is a true CSV, read.table if tab (or other) delimited.

Afterwards, it's simple to coerce to a matrix or data frame: ?matrix ?data.frame