phylo.toBackbone {phytools} | R Documentation |
Converts tree to backbone or vice versa
Description
Converts between "phylo"
and "backbonePhylo"
.
Usage
phylo.toBackbone(x, trans, ...)
backbone.toPhylo(x)
Arguments
x |
an object of class "phylo" (for the function phylo.toBackbone ), or an object of the special class "backbonePhylo" (for backbone.toPhylo ).
|
trans |
data frame containing the attributes necessary to translate a backbone tree to an object of class "backbonePhylo" . The data frame should contain the following variables: tip.label : the tip labels in the input tree (not all need be included); clade.label : labels for the unobserved subtrees; N : number of species in each subtree; and depth : desired depth of each subtree. depth for each terminal taxon in x cannot be greater than the terminal edge length for that taxon.
|
... |
optional arguments.
|
Value
Either an object of class "phylo"
or an object of class "backbonePhylo"
, depending on the method.
Author(s)
Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu
References
Revell, L. J. (2024) phytools 2.0: an updated R ecosystem for phylogenetic comparative methods (and other things). PeerJ, 12, e16505.
See Also
plot.backbonePhylo
[Package
phytools version 2.3-0
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