[Mesquitelist] supermatrix building

[Sam Donnelly]

Hello, 

What tools does Mesquite have for supermatrix building? I've used the Matrix->Utilities->Concatenate Other Matrix tool, but was wondering what else there might be.

Other related, but more specific questions: 

Is there a way to see what characters that two matrices have in common? 

Is there a way to combine two matrices and join on a column? For example if we had

M1
   c1 c2
t1 0  1
t2 1  1

M2
   c2 c3
t1 1  1 
t2 1  0

is there a way to concatenate them to get

M1M2
   c1 c2 c3
t1  0  1  1 
t2  1  1  0

I'm leaving aside the cases where c2 has different states for t1 and t2 in the two matrices. But maybe there's some sort of conflict resolution method for those cases? 

Thanks!

Sam

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