MinimumLength: Minimum length

In TreeSearch: Phylogenetic Analysis with Discrete Character Data

Minimum length

Description

The smallest length that a character can obtain on any tree.

Usage

MinimumLength(x, compress = FALSE)

## S3 method for class 'phyDat'
MinimumLength(x, compress = FALSE)

## S3 method for class 'numeric'
MinimumLength(x, compress = NA)

## S3 method for class 'character'
MinimumLength(x, compress = TRUE)

MinimumSteps(x)

Arguments

x

An object of class phyDat; or a string to be coerced to a phyDat object via TreeTools::StringToPhyDat(); or an integer vector listing the tokens that may be present at each tip along a single character, with each token represented as a binary digit; e.g. a value of 11 ( = 2^0 + 2^1 + 2^3) means that the tip may have tokens 0, 1 or 3. Inapplicable tokens should be denoted with the integer 0 (not 2^0).

compress

Logical specifying whether to retain the compression of a phyDat object or to return a vector specifying to each individual character, decompressed using the dataset's index attribute.

Value

MinimumLength() returns a vector of integers specifying the minimum number of steps that each character must contain.

Author(s)

Martin R. Smith ([e-mail])

See Also

Other tree scoring: CharacterLength(), IWScore(), LengthAdded(), MorphyTreeLength(), TaxonInfluence()

Examples

data("inapplicable.datasets")
myPhyDat <- inapplicable.phyData[[4]]

# load your own data with
# my.PhyDat <- as.phyDat(read.nexus.data("filepath"))
# or Windows users can select a file interactively using:
# my.PhyDat <- as.phyDat(read.nexus.data(choose.files()))

class(myPhyDat) # phyDat object

# Minimum length of each character in turn
MinimumLength(myPhyDat)

# Collapse duplicate characters, per phyDat compression
MinimumLength(myPhyDat, compress = TRUE)

# Calculate length of a single character from its textual representation
MinimumLength("-{-1}{-2}{-3}2233")

TreeSearch documentation built on Aug. 26, 2023, 9:06 a.m.