Data for: rtrees: An R package to assemble phylogenetic trees from megatrees

Despite the increasingly available phylogenetic hypotheses for multiple
taxonomic groups, most of them do not include all species. In phylogenetic
ecology, there is still strong demand to have phylogenies with all species
in a study included. The existing software tools to graft species to
backbone megatrees, however, are mostly limited to a specific taxonomic
group such as plants or fishes. Here, I introduce a new user-friendly R
package `rtrees` that can assemble phylogenies from existing or
user-provided megatrees. For most common taxonomic groups, users can only
provide a vector of species' scientific names to get a phylogeny or a
set of posterior phylogenies from megatrees. It is my hope that `rtrees`
can provide an easy, flexible, and reliable way to assemble phylogenies
from megatrees, facilitating the progress of phylogenetic ecology.