phytools: multiC – R documentation

Become an expert in R — Interactive courses, Cheat Sheets, certificates and more!

multiC

Returns a list with phylogenetic VCV matrix for each mapped state

Description

This function takes a modified "phylo" object as input and returns a set of so-called phylogenetic covariance matrices (e.g., see vcv.phylo) as a list: one for each mapped state.

Usage

multiC(tree, internal=FALSE)

Arguments

`tree`	an object of class `"simmap"` consisting of a phylogeny with a mapped discrete character.
`internal`	logical value indicating whether or not internal nodes should be returned.

Value

A list of matrices.

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.