phytools: plotTree – R documentation

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plotTree

Plots rooted phylogenetic tree

Description

This function plots a rooted phylogram. Arguments in ... are passed to plotSimmap, with the exception of optional argument color which is used to determine the plotted color of the branch lengths of the tree.

Usage

plotTree(tree, ...)

Arguments

`tree`	a phylogenetic tree in `"phylo"` format; or multiple trees as an object of class `"multiPhylo"`.
`...`	optional arguments.

Value

This function plots a rooted phylogram.

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.

Examples

data(vertebrate.tree)
plotTree(vertebrate.tree,fsize=1.2,ftype="i")
## reset margins
par(mar=c(5.1,4.1,4.1,2.1))

phytools

Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

v0.7-70

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Liam J. Revell

Initial release

2020-9-19