get.descendants {phylocanvas} | R Documentation |
get the names of the tips of descendants given a tree and the name of an internal node.
get.descendants(tree, nodename)
tree |
Required. A |
nodename |
Required. A character corresponding to an internal node. |
a character vector of descendant names
birdfile <- system.file("treedata/birdfamilies.tree", package="phylocanvas")
tree <- load.tree(birdfile)
node <- phylobase::MRCA(tree, c("Cerylidae", "Upupidae"))
get.descendants(tree, node)