phytools: splitTree – R documentation

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splitTree

Split tree at a point

Description

Primarily an internal function for posterior.evolrate, this function splits the tree at a given point, and returns the two subtrees as an object of class "multiPhylo".

Usage

splitTree(tree, split)

Arguments

`tree`	phylogenetic tree.
`split`	split encoded as a list with two elements: `node`: the node number tipward of the split; and `bp`: the position along the branch to break the tree, measured from the rootward end of the edge.

Details

Probably do not use this unless you can figure out what you are doing.

Value

Two trees in a list.

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.

phytools

Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

v0.7-70

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Liam J. Revell

Initial release

2020-9-19