Automatic Phylogenetic Tree Generator R package aptg version 0.4.0 Generates phylogenetic trees and distance matrices from a list of taxon names, or from a higher taxon expanded down to a chosen lower rank. Trees are obtained as induced subtrees of the Open Tree of Life synthetic tree using the 'rotl' package (Michonneau, Brown and Winter, 2016, <doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12593>). Expansion of a higher taxon to its descendants uses 'taxize' (Chamberlain and Szocs, 2013, <doi:10.12688/f1000research.2-191.v2>). Software Imports: ape, rotl, taxize, stats Suggests: fishtree, rgbif, geosphere, testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown Christophe Benjamin <christophe.benjamin@protonmail.com> Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN) Christophe Benjamin [aut, cre] MIT + file LICENSE (https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=aptg/LICENSE) 2026-07-19 application/tgz https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=aptg doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.aptg