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maxdist

Calculates the maximum phenotypic distance between the lineages leading to a pair of taxa.

maxdist uses ancestral state reconstruction to determine the maximum distance between any ancestors of those two taxa.

maxdist(phyl, phendata, t1, t2)

`phyl`	The phylogeny of interest in phylo format
`phendata`	Phenotypic data for all tips
`t1`	The first taxon of interest
`t2`	The second taxon of interest

Returns the maximum Euclidean distance between any pair of ancestors of the two taxa, whether or not those two ancestors are contemporaries.

The maximum phenotypic distance between the two taxa

Paradis, E., J. Claude, and K. Strimmer (2004) APE: Analyses of phylogenetics and evolution in R langauge. Bioinformatics, 20, 289-290.

Revell, L. J. (2012) phytools: An R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things). Methods Ecol. Evol. 3 217-223.

phyl<-rtree(10)
phendata<-fastBM(phyl,nsim=2)
answer<-maxdist(phyl,phendata,1,10)

Analysis of Convergent Evolution

v1.3

GPL-2

Authors

C. Tristan Stayton [aut, cre]

Initial release