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untangle

Attempts to untangle crossing branches for plotting

This function attempts to untangle the branches of a tree that are tangled in plotting with plot.phylo, plotTree, or plotSimmap.

untangle(tree, method=c("reorder","read.tree"))

`tree`	tree as an object of class `"phylo"` or `"simmap"`.
`method`	method to use to attempt to untangle branches. `method="reorder"` uses two calls of `reorder.phylo` or `reorderSimmap`; `method="read.tree"` writes the tree to a text string and then reads it back into memory using `read.tree`.

An object of class "phylo" or "simmap".

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

Phylogenetic Tools for Comparative Biology (and Other Things)

v0.7-70

GPL (>= 2)

Authors

Liam J. Revell

Initial release

2020-9-19