phytools: labelnodes – R documentation

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labelnodes

Function to interactively label nodes of a plotted tree

Description

Function adds node labels to a plotted object of class "phylo". The nodes to be labels can be selected interactively by the user (i.e., by clicking on the corresponding nodes of the plotted tree).

Usage

labelnodes(text, node=NULL, interactive=TRUE, shape=c("circle","ellipse",
   "rect"), ...)

Arguments

`text`	text string or vector to be used as labels.
`node`	node numbers (indices) for the labels.
`interactive`	logical value indicating whether or not nodes should be supplied interactively. (I.e., by clicking on the nodes.)
`shape`	shape to plot around the plotted node label(s).
`...`	optional arguments.

Value

Invisibly returns a vector of the node indices for the labeled nodes.

Author(s)

Liam Revell liam.revell@umb.edu

References

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