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AncestorEdge

Ancestral edge

Description

Ancestral edge

Usage

AncestorEdge(edge, parent, child)

Arguments

edge

Number of an edge
parent

Integer vector corresponding to the first column of the edge matrix of a tree of class phylo, i.e. tree$edge[, 1]
child

Integer vector corresponding to the second column of the edge matrix of a tree of class phylo, i.e. tree$edge[, 2].

Value

AncestorEdge returns a logical vector identifying whether each edge is the immediate ancestor of the given edge.

See Also

Examples

tree <- BalancedTree(6)
parent <- tree$edge[, 1]
child <- tree$edge[, 2]
plot(tree)
ape::edgelabels()
AncestorEdge(5, parent, child)
which(AncestorEdge(5, parent, child))
TreeTools

Create, Modify and Analyse Phylogenetic Trees

v1.4.4
GPL (>= 3)
Authors
Martin R. Smith [aut, cre, cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5660-1727>), Emmanuel Paradis [cph] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3092-2199>)
Initial release

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